On 03.01.2017 18:11, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > On 01/03/17 09:18, Sean Bruno wrote: >> >> I'm pondering where to start with getting FreeBSD's bsd-user code into >> shape so it could actually be reviewed and accepted now that its sort of >> working again (signal handling fixed finally). >> >> I almost feel like the existing code should be purged, except that it >> gives a good history (and this seems lazy to me). >> >> As a first pass, I guess, I'd like to at least make i386 user run on >> x86_64. What would you folks like to see in a first pass? >> >> sean >> >> ref: https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user/tree/bsd-user >> > > Primitive example of what I think I should base my patchset on. Its > invasive and large. > > https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user/tree/merge1 > > That branch, is all the bsd-user changes that are pending in one large > "splat". It excludes the new architectures (arm, aarch64, mips, mips64) > that we are actively using. i386-bsd-user when compiled statically on > x86_64 will run a static (rescue) sh ... so, I think that's good. > x86_64 running on x86_64 just blows up. > > As for sparc/sparc64 ... I'm tempted to delete them as nobody in freebsd > is actively maintaining them nor do we have any expectation that they > will work someday.
It's broken ... nobody maintains it ... and we've got too many unmaintained bit-rotten files in the QEMU tree, so IMHO just go ahead and send a patch to remove the bsud-user sparc support. If anybody ever needs it again, they can revert the commit or simply submit a patch with the fixed code. Thomas
