Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch: Sparc system support

[Fabrice Bellard]

I applied your patches with some modifications. Please update your 
sources with the CVS version and tell me if you see problems in my 
modifications.

You should provide at least a binary BIOS image so that I can make 
regression tests. I can also put a link on the web site so that you can 
give specific information about the SPARC port.

A few notes:

- The 'env->access_type' you used (as in the PowerPC version) will soon 
be deprecated as it is too complicated and broken. I will make the 
appropriate modifications.

- 'magic-load.c' is not acceptable as it uses GPL code. Moreover, the 
user ELF loader code is too complicated, so it is better to rewrite it 
from scratch. You can still use the ELF swap functions as I wrote them.

Thank you for your work !

Fabrice.

Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This version of Sparc system emulation can load ELF kernels (see 
> screenshot), like Linux or *BSD using a hacked (patch attached) Proll.  
> The kernels won't run very far, there is still much work to do.  Also 
> new to previous patch is m48t08 NVRAM chip support, based on the PPC's 
> newer m48t59.
>
> How to try: Patch Proll, compile, convert mrcoffee/proll.elf to binary 
> with objdump -O binary.  Configure Qemu with ./configure 
> --target-list="sparc-softmmu".  Run qemu-system-sparc with -L 
> path_to_proll -kernel vmlinux or bsd.
>
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