On May 9, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 9 May 2014 09:57, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@linaro.org> wrote: >> On 8 May 2014 17:54, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: >>> Ah, bsd-user. Do you actually use it, or is it just >>> in the default compile that you're running? > >> One year since last bsd-user specific patch, I take we need a new >> maintainer for bsd-user? > > Perhaps so. Stacey Son submitted a set of patches to > it back in January, but they were a very large series > which needed some restructuring to get through code > review and I don't think there's been a respin of those. > > Personally I would like to see it either (a) actively > maintained upstream or (b) just removed from the tree; > the current situation doesn't seem very useful. There is some interest from FreeBSD folks to use qemu bsd-user mode in package cross building. In fact, support was added recently to poudriere to used qemu to cross build packages for armv6 and mips64 (see https://fossil.etoilebsd.net/poudriere/tktview/eb7afa654cec95e107905c64b78fb030abc1437b for example). Sean Bruno added the missing bits to make mips32 work correctly. Juergen Lock (nox@) has also contributed a lot of bug fixes and maintains the FreeBSD port. As for restructuring the (25,000+ lines of) patches Sean has agreed to help with that given that I am busy with some other things at the moment. Regards, -stacey.
