On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: > On 04/14/2013 04:38:23 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: >> > On 03/26/2013 02:34:50 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:52 AM, Rob Landley <r...@landley.net> wrote: >> >> > Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on >> >> > arbitrary >> >> > targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips, >> >> > powerpc, >> >> > sparc... >> >> >> >> Yes. Moreover, for sparc64 the virtio network is currently the only >> >> way to have a network under Linux guest (and a virtio block is the >> >> only to have a disk under Linux guest). >> > >> > >> > Do you have an example kernel .config and qemu command line showing how >> > to >> > use virtio for those? (Or a working sparc64 image you can point me to?) >> >> Yes. Will send it to you as I get to my home machine. Can you make them >> available on your site? > > I plan to add a sparc64 target built from source to Aboriginal Linux.
Good to hear that. The more use/test cases, the less bugs! Actually I was asking whether you would host a non-Aboriginal, foreign Debian kernel. But never mind, I figured it's better to fix QEMU to be able use a vanilla Debian kernel instead of building custom kernels. :-) So if you have more than one PCI / virtio device in your qemu-system-sparc64 setup, you may want to update your QEMU to today's git master. > For a lot of the 64-bit targets, actual 64 bit userspace support is > strangely lacking. For ppc64 they say to use ppc32, and I've been told that > about sparc64 as well. I don't know if this is an optimization or a > requirement. I have a 32 bit image, I'd like to test the 64 bit codepaths as > well... I guess it's rather an optimisation. At least I saw BusyBox working under QEMU before the sparc v8plus was fixed. Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
