Re: [Qemu-devel] Sparc emulation no longer boots

[Nigel Horne]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Nigel Horne<address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > I've recently found that the GIT version of the Sparc emulation no longer
> > boots Debian. I get this error:
> >
> > ...
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > FDC 0 is a S82078B
> > RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
> > Initializing Cryptographic API
> > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> > IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
> > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> > RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
> > RAMDISK: Loading 2320 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
> > Freeing initrd memory: 2320k freed
> > VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
> > mount[8]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > cat[9]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > mount[10]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > linuxrc[7]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
> > initrd-tools: 0.1.84.2
> > umount[11]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> > cat[12]: Unimplemented SPARC system call 188
> >
> > Then qemu loops.
> >
> > My startup command is
> > qemu-system-sparc -hda ~njh/qemu/sparc/debian.img -nographic -m 128
> >     
The latest git version fixes this - well done. But there is one thing - 
Perl segfaults. This is 100% reproducible.

address@hidden:~$ uname -a
Linux qemu-sparc-debian.bandsman.co.uk 2.4.27-4-sparc32 #1 Tue Mar 4 
08:22:06 UTC 2008 sparc GNU/Linux
address@hidden:~$ su
Password:
qemu-sparc-debian:/home/njh# !perl
perl -MCPAN -eshell
CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.69)

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9102)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan[1]> 
r                                                                     
CPAN::SQLite not installed, trying to work without
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.15)
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
 Database was generated on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:02:51 GMT
Going to read /root/.cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.008)
Segmentation fault
qemu-sparc-debian:/home/njh#


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