Re: [Qemu-devel] Any update on SPARC/Solaris host?

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

On 3/10/09, Jonathan Kalbfeld <jonathan.kalbfeld@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>  I know I pester about this a lot, but I was curious if there were any
>  new developments on SPARC/Solaris host?
>
>  Last version I can run on Solaris 10/SPARC is the January 13, 2008
>  build, and I just wanted to find out if the sparc efforts had been
>  shelved.  I'm about to build more recent 0.9.1 builds but I get a core
>  dump on my V210 when trying to boot the i386 emulator.

There are still problems with the i386, Sparc is picky about alignment
and the code generator does not handle the unaligned access case. The
speed may not be very great if all accesses have to construct the
words using byte accesses and shifts.

But doesn't Sparc32 system emulator work? It does here at least on
Linux and OpenBSD.

>  I can donate some hosting resources to development of the sparc
>  version, but I'm not much of a serious coder.  I'm much more adept at
>  packaging it up and making it available as a finished product...

Testing and reporting bugs is also very helpful.

To give more information about crashes, just run the binary under GDB
and when the crash happens, enter a "bt" (backtrace) command to GDB
prompt.