Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/17] s390x: s390x-linux-user support

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:42:25PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 18.04.2011, at 15:36, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 03:21:54PM +0200, Jan-Simon Möller wrote:
> >> Am Montag, 18. April 2011, 14:19:26 schrieb Riku Voipio:
> >>> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 02:06:02PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >>>>> The patch looks OK, but I'd like to have a try with some s390x static
> >>>>> binaries. Such binaries are also useful for me to test that new patches
> >>>>> for linxu-user don't break targets I don't usually use.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Sure - what exactly would you like there? I can easily compile a few. Do
> >>>> you want to have them added to the tests/ directory?
> >>> 
> >>> busybox has so far been most useful.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Good idea, what about adding a collection of static busybox for the 
> >> different 
> >> arches? Not everyone testing has the compiler around for $ARCH . 
> >> 
> > 
> > It's something that already exists [1]. It would actually make sense to
> > add s390x binaries there. Also it might be a good idea to provide a
> > minimal system image as on other architectures.
> > 
> > [1] http://wiki.qemu.org/Download
> 
> I find the minimal systems rather useless, but love your Debian images. So if 
> you could create one of those for s390, that'd be awesome! :)
> 

Once I get qemu-system-s390x fully working, it looks my scripts to
produce images should work with minor changes for s390.

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