Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Solaris/SPARC binaries

[Herbert Poetzl]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 10:05:14AM +0200, Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sparc V8 system emulator is very much complete, but in practice some hidden 
> bugs in it (and also bugs in Proll's Openprom support) make the emulator 
> fragile. It can only run Linux 2.6 series, 2.4 or BSDs won't run. Probably 
> some heavy debugging could make a difference, but it seems that general 
> interest for the emulator is low.

well, just to let you know ... I'm interested in the emulator
(is there some howto available, regarding openprom and such?)

TIA,
Herbert

> I haven't tried Solaris for Sparc V8, it would be interesting to hear the 
> results.
> 
> V9 emulation is getting better, but it's still not usable for anything yet. 
> For example, support for execution in memory above >4G limit (in 32-bit 
> host) was committed to CVS only a few days ago. Maybe the user mode 
> emulator could run 64-bit Linux binaries, but I don't have any.
> 
> It might be possible to make a Solaris user mode emulator by translating 
> Solaris system calls to Linux, but it could be a lot of work.
> 
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