Re: [Qemu-devel] sparc64 linux-user status

[Peter Maydell]

On 22 May 2017 at 14:45, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> While looking at some of the docker cross-build patches I thought I'd
> checkout if I could still bootstrap some Debian linux-user images. I
> made some tweaks to allow debootstrap to bootstrap from Debian's ports
> to see if I could get the SPARC64 file-system up and running:
>
>  https://github.com/stsquad/qemu/commits/docker/sparc64-linux-user
>
> However when I try to run it:
>
>   make docker-image-debian-sparc64-user V=1
>
> It fails

Doesn't surprise me very much, IIRC the last time I tried the
sparc linux-user code it was a bit broken (worked for simple
stuff, not for more complicated stuff). My pull tests include
a basic "can we run ls" for sparc64, but nothing more.

(In particular SPARC is BE so if we messed up on anything that
needs struct endianness swapping it will hit it.)

thanks
-- PMM