On 10 July 2013 22:05, Graney, Kevin <kevin.gra...@lmco.com> wrote: > I know the QEMU system emulation of SPARC supports booting a.out > format kernels, but is there currently support for this format > in user mode emulation?
Not currently. > If I have an a.out format binary is there an easy way to get > qemu-sparc to load it or will I have to patch the loader to > basically add new load_aout_binary and load_aout_image functions? You'd need to add a load_aout_binary() function plus the code in linuxload.c which recognises the a.out magic numbers and calls it. See the current support for both ELF and bFLT formats. (load_elf_image() is an internal function to the ELF format loading code; you don't need to provide an equivalent a.out function.) That said, a quick google suggests that SPARC/Linux never supported a.out binaries -- are you sure these are SPARCLinux and not SunOS or something? -- PMM
