Hi there, I am in charge of some hardware built back in the 1980th, which is controlled by a SPARC computer under Solaris 8. Unfortunately this hardware has to survive several more years. I want to replace the SPARC by a state-of-the art Linux / x86 computer, but: I don't have the source code for that old hardware, only some binaries and shared object libs. This is, why I came across QEMU (which is completely new to me).
Question 1: As far as I understand the documentation, I have to install Solaris 8 to some QEMU disk, install the software for my old hardware, and this should end up with a working system, right? Question 2: It would be much easier for me, to stay on Linux, and run only the binaries for my hardware under QEMU control. Is this ok as well? Question 3: For several programs, I have "most of" the source code, only the source of the low-level routines which talk to the hardware, is not available. I have to link in some vendor supplied shared object for this. Is it possible to set up some "mixed platform binary" e.g. use a binary for x86, and link in some shared objects build for SPARC ? Thanks a lot for your advice, Hartmut
