Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-10 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 09.11.2016 um 07:34 schrieb Dennis Luehring: im using cross-linux-from-scratch manual/script for building the non-x86_64 platforms fyi after using the crosscompilers from the gcc-5-crossports packages (http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/xenial/gcc-5-cross-ports) alpha-linux-gnu-gcc-5

Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-08 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 07.11.2016 um 18:21 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: its not alpha related same error happens with ppc64,sparc64,mips64... so i tried to reproduce the errors also on x86_64 in qemu building a tiny linux kernel 4.8.6 (~1MB) and a simple init (~1MB) based on http://mgalgs.github.io/2015/05/16/how-to-bu

Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-07 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 07.11.2016 um 16:56 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: >so the second one couldn't be a problem with running out of memory - and >its not alpha related same error happens with ppc64,sparc64,mips64... The second one*is* related to running out of memory. Initrd decompression takes unintuitive amounts of me

Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-07 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 07.11.2016 um 15:15 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: On 11/07/16 08:35, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 04.11.2016 um 20:40 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: >> I guess it is "possible to design a system which can recover from >> this", except noone seems to have bothered, since 2009. (Ditto f

Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-07 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 07.11.2016 um 15:12 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: The second error message is incorrect in its own right (it's just another symptom of running out of memory; there a two cpios big(~370MB) initrd.cpio + 1GB ram gives only this message: "Initramfs unpacking failed: write error" small(~14MB) initrd.cp

Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-06 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 04.11.2016 um 22:08 schrieb Richard Henderson: No, it was less specific than that. Something like "unpacking failed: error". >And, apparently, it used to be handled with a panic() call, but then that >was deemed "policy", and downgraded to a KERN_EMERG message: Ouch. A silly decision, but

Re: [Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-11-06 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 04.11.2016 um 20:40 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: I guess it is "possible to design a system which can recover from this", except noone seems to have bothered, since 2009. (Ditto for the proposed "panic-level=X" alternative.) I've now briefly considered posting a trivial kernel patch for this, but h

[Qemu-devel] alpha platform is missing files after initrd load

2016-10-20 Thread Dennis Luehring
qemu: 2.7.x (git head) platform: Alpha (Clipper) kernel: 4.7.0 gcc: 6.1 i don't know if its an qemu oder linux kernel problem i've got an ~360MB big_initrd.cpio and it sometimes happen(seems so) that there are files missing after the kernel loaded the initrd this does not happen with the same pr

Re: [Qemu-devel] how to get the default cpu for a softmmu

2016-10-15 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 15.10.2016 um 12:29 schrieb Alex Bennée: >i can get a list of all supported CPUs by using the -cpu ? commandline > >but which CPU is selected if i don't give the -cpu parameter on normal >qemu start of a softmmu? IIRC it is dependant on the machine model you select and which cpu is seletec

[Qemu-devel] how to get the default cpu for a softmmu

2016-10-14 Thread Dennis Luehring
i can get a list of all supported CPUs by using the -cpu ? commandline but which CPU is selected if i don't give the -cpu parameter on normal qemu start of a softmmu?

Re: [Qemu-devel] something broken in "v2.7.0-rc1" or just a behavior change?

2016-08-16 Thread Dennis Luehring
fixed - thanks Am 16.08.2016 um 09:33 schrieb Marc-André Lureau: Hi On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:35 AM Dennis Luehring wrote: > working: "v2.7.0-rc0" 2d2e632ad00d11867c6c5625605b1fbc022dd62f > non-working: "v2.7.0-rc1" 69d490079f82f5ffe31fff426aaa580d5fec5fb7 >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.7] char: fix waiting for TLS and telnet connection

2016-08-16 Thread Dennis Luehring
you should push that change - can't find it on http://git.qemu.org/qemu.git Am 16.08.2016 um 10:33 schrieb Marc-André Lureau: Since commit d7a04fd7d5008, tcp_chr_wait_connected() was introduced, so vhost-user could wait until a backend started successfully. In vhost-user case, the chr socket mus

Re: [Qemu-devel] something broken in "v2.7.0-rc1" or just a behavior change?

2016-08-15 Thread Dennis Luehring
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin :100644 100644 6eba615818b7ae96256017663acde90e0e674d30 a50b8fb3a39c8c5456c901dc420d1fb2aadd1b0d Mqemu-char.c Am 12.08.2016 um 11:03 schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi: On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 07:15:06AM +0200, Dennis Luehring wrote: > my scenario works wi

[Qemu-devel] something broken in "v2.7.0-rc1" or just a behavior change?

2016-08-04 Thread Dennis Luehring
my scenario works with before "v2.7.0-rc1" git "v2.5.0" OK git "v2.6.0" OK git "v2.7.0-rc0" OK git "v2.7.0-rc1" FAILS [qemu-git] build qemu from git at ~2016/08/04 git rev-parse HEAD 09704e6ded83fa0bec14baf32f800f6512156ca0 [scenario] qemu/sparc64-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc64 --version QEMU emu

[Qemu-devel] qemu monitor/serial parameter change or bug in git head?

2015-10-25 Thread Dennis Luehring
qemu-system-alpha -m 1GB -nographic -monitor telnet::4440,server,nowait -serial telnet::3000,server -kernel clfskernel-4.2.3 -append 'console=ttyS0' -initrd initramfs.cpio using: git clone -b "v2.4.0.1" git://git.qemu-project.org/qemu.git and build i see the normal "QEMU waiting for connection

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-alpha -nographic does not work

2015-09-30 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 30.09.2015 um 08:48 schrieb Richard Henderson: On 09/30/2015 02:36 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > ~/qemu/alpha-softmmu/qemu-system-alpha -m 1GB -monitor telnet::4440,server,nowait\ > -kernel vmlinux.img-2.6.26-2-alpha-generic -initrd > initrd.img-2.6.26-2-alpha-generic\ > -

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-alpha -nographic does not work

2015-09-30 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 30.09.2015 um 04:40 schrieb Richard Henderson: On 09/27/2015 05:02 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > git master clone from 09/27/2015, 8:07 > git rev-parse HEAD > 9e071429e649346c14b2dc76902f84f8352d2333 > > if i try to start qemu-system-alpha with option -nographic while installing

[Qemu-devel] qemu-system-alpha -nographic does not work

2015-09-27 Thread Dennis Luehring
git master clone from 09/27/2015, 8:07 git rev-parse HEAD 9e071429e649346c14b2dc76902f84f8352d2333 if i try to start qemu-system-alpha with option -nographic while installing debian lenny 5.0.10 for alpha i get this output and qemu hangs - without using -nographic debian is fully installable

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/20] Do away with TB retranslation

2015-09-15 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 15.09.2015 um 22:19 schrieb Richard Henderson: Indeed. It would indeed be good to add a bunch of bare-metal tests. Pre-compiled and checked in so that one doesn't have to have a suite of cross-compilers in order to use them. OTOH, I don't see myself (or anyone else) really having the time to

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/20] Do away with TB retranslation

2015-09-10 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 10.09.2015 um 12:37 schrieb Dennis Luehring: Am 10.09.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote: >> >Am 10.09.2015 um 09:00 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: >>>> >>> >>>>> >>> >stran

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/20] Do away with TB retranslation

2015-09-10 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 10.09.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote: >Am 10.09.2015 um 09:00 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: >>> >>> >strangly your branch doesn't changed anything for pure SPARC64 in my >>> >tests - >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/20] Do away with TB retranslation

2015-09-10 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 10.09.2015 um 09:00 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: >strangly your branch doesn't changed anything for pure SPARC64 in my tests - >i've always completely removed the qemu folder and cleanly rebuild >(all based on stable shell-scripts) Can you please show "perf top" of the qemu-system-sparc64 proces

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/20] Do away with TB retranslation

2015-09-09 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 08.09.2015 um 21:00 schrieb Richard Henderson: Anyway, I've just fixed the sparc problem and re-pushed the tree to git://github.com/rth7680/qemu.git tcg-search-2 for anyone who wants to do any more testing. strangly your branch doesn't changed anything for pure SPARC64 in my tests - i

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-09-01 Thread Dennis Luehring
i will try that - thx Am 27.08.2015 um 17:29 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > (i've posted the question already on qemu-disc...@nongnu.org but was toled > to better use this mailing list) > > i've prepared an Debian 7

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-26 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 26.08.2015 um 21:47 schrieb Richard Henderson: Anyway, this sort of setup is exactly what I did for Alpha. The PALcode (hypervisor-ish) layer used for qemu looks nothing like the PALcode layer used for real hardware. can post your qemu parameters for installing/starting your alpha emulatio

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-sparc: Store mmu index in TB flags

2015-08-25 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 25.08.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Richard Henderson: But you're right, it would be nice to put together a coherent set of benchmarks. Ideally, a guest kernel plus minimal ramdisk with the tests pre-loaded so that we can boot and run ./benchmark at the prompt. That's the sort of thing we can easily

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-sparc: Store mmu index in TB flags

2015-08-25 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 25.08.2015 um 20:09 schrieb Richard Henderson: On 08/25/2015 07:37 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 25.08.2015 um 16:25 schrieb Richard Henderson: >> Er, no, it should. The primary vector by which I expect improvement is via not >> encoding dmmu.mmu_primary_context into the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-sparc: Store mmu index in TB flags

2015-08-25 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 25.08.2015 um 16:25 schrieb Richard Henderson: Er, no, it should. The primary vector by which I expect improvement is via not encoding dmmu.mmu_primary_context into the TB flags. I.e. ASI_DMMU, which sun4u certainly uses. The fact that the patch_also_ fixes a sun4v problem is secondary.

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-sparc: Store mmu index in TB flags

2015-08-25 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 25.08.2015 um 08:44 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: >your patch gives the worst result in stream benchmark but nearly the best in >pugixml compile times and prime.c runtime >every tried patch or branch nearly halfs the speed of the stream benchmark >comapred to qemu-git-master This is very surprisi

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-sparc: Store mmu index in TB flags

2015-08-24 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 25.08.2015 um 06:19 schrieb Richard Henderson: Artyom and Dennis, I'm hoping that this will help with some of your translation performance problems. I don't currently have a sparc64 kernel set up for booting, but I did smoke test this with openbios, and even there it reduced the number of TBs

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-23 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 22.08.2015 um 20:53 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: Compared with #undef USE_TCG_OPTIMIZATIONS , they are similar, yes. Compared with vanilla master I get a more noticeable improvement. my test suffering less from the Aurelien Jarno described Sparc32->x86_64 "translation" if you're still using de

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-22 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 22.08.2015 um 18:45 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: git master: 18m31s tcg-indirect: 16m50s #undef USE_TCG_OPTIMIZATIONS: 14m18s my results are not totaly different to yours - ~20-30% slowdown compared to #undef USE_TCG_OPTIMIZATIONS

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-21 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 21.08.2015 um 17:47 schrieb Richard Henderson: On 08/20/2015 11:05 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: >> > g++ src/pugixml.cpp -g -Wall -Wextra -Werror -pedantic -std=c++0x -c -MMD -MP >> > >> > tcg-indirect: ~2:46.5 >> > qemu.org-git: ~2:51.2 (worst result) >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-20 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 21.08.2015 um 07:49 schrieb Richard Henderson: On 08/20/2015 09:32 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > gcc prime.c -o prime.out -lm > > prime.out runtime > > tcg-indirect: ~9.3 sec (best result) > qemu.org-git: ~11 sec > without-optimization: ~9.9 sec (worst result) I presume

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-20 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 20.08.2015 um 19:19 schrieb Richard Henderson: This isn't surprising, because at the moment tcg optimizations are almost completely ineffective for sparc. The way the register windows are implemented means that there are very few proper tcg temporaries to optimize. I've just updated an old b

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-20 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 19.08.2015 um 16:41 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: And if I completely disable optimizer (// #define USE_TCG_OPTIMIZATIONS in tcg.c), it's still quite faster: real14m17.668s user14m10.241s sys 0m6.060s my tests also without USE_TCG_OPTIMIZATIONS qemu 2.4.50, netbsd 6.1.5 SPARC64 wi

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-18 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 18.08.2015 um 21:06 schrieb Karel Gardas: Thanks a lot for doing this. It looks like g++ is memory-bound in this case, isn't it? What does stream[1] benchmark tell on host and emulated as 32/64bit sparc binary? Let's see if the ratio is kind of similar to the time you get... [1]:https://www.c

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-18 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 06.08.2015 um 11:00 schrieb Karel Gardas: Denis, if NetBSD is fast in qemu and if it provides sparc64 user-land, perhaps also its GCC is sparc64 binary and if so, then it would be good if you do your original benchmark of compiling pugixml.cpp and write the numbers here for comparison? I would

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-18 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 18.08.2015 um 10:19 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: How big is the source file and the output file? I find strange that I/O impacts so much for a compilation which should be CPU bounded. Maybe try to add the -pipe argument to g++. and the gcc -ftime-report g++ src/pugixml.cpp -g -Wall -Wextra -Werr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-18 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 18.08.2015 um 10:19 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: How big is the source file and the output file? I find strange that I/O impacts so much for a compilation which should be CPU bounded. Maybe try to add the -pipe argument to g++. NetBSD SPARC64, running from ramdisk, qemu 2.4.50 g++ src/pugixml.cp

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-17 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 31.07.2015 um 17:43 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > >Anyway I have extracted this code into a C file (see attached file) that > >can more easily compiled to 32 or 64 bit using -m32 or -m64. I observe > >the same behavior than sysbench, even with qemu-user (which is not > >surprising as the above cod

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-06 Thread Dennis Luehring
qemu-2.2.0/bin/qemu-system-sparc64 -hda openbsd_sparc64.img -m 1024 -nographic -net nic,model=i82551 -net user On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 06.08.2015 um 11:21 schrieb Dennis Luehring: >> >> if NetBSD is fast in qemu and if it provides sparc64 user-l

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-06 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 06.08.2015 um 11:21 schrieb Dennis Luehring: if NetBSD is fast in qemu and if it provides sparc64 user-land, >perhaps also its GCC is sparc64 binary and if so according to the docs its pure SPARC64 kernel and userland (no exceptions)

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-06 Thread Dennis Luehring
, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 03.08.2015 um 17:59 schrieb Karel Gardas: >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: >> > ok - NetBSD 6.5.1 SPARC64 is blasting fast compare to Debian 7.8.0 >> > SPARC64 - >> > i installed the

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 03.08.2015 um 17:59 schrieb Karel Gardas: On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > ok - NetBSD 6.5.1 SPARC64 is blasting fast compare to Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 - > i installed the complete system (without X) in a few minutes > Debian needs >1h I had the same exp

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 30.07.2015 um 10:55 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: Note that when you say SPARC64 here, it's actually only the kernel, you are using a 32-bit userland. ok - NetBSD 6.5.1 SPARC64 is blasting fast compare to Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 - i installed the complete system (without X) in a few minutes Debian

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 30.07.2015 um 10:55 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: Note that when you say SPARC64 here, it's actually only the kernel, you are using a 32-bit userland. And that makes a difference. Here are my tests here: installing NetBSD 6.5.1 SPARC64 seems to perform much better (compared to Debian 7.8.0 SPARC6

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-30 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 30.07.2015 um 12:09 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: I am using Debian SPARC64 from debian-ports. But it's not really ready-to-use and often broken. the current 6.5.1 NetBSD is available for SPARC and SPARC64 - with SPARC using 32bit Kernel/Userland and SPARC64 with 64bit Kernel/Userland and accor

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-30 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 30.07.2015 um 09:52 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: On 2015-07-30 05:52, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 29.07.2015 um 17:01 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > >The point is that emulation has a cost, and it's quite difficult to > >to lower it and thus improve the emulation speed. > > s

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 29.07.2015 um 17:01 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: The point is that emulation has a cost, and it's quite difficult to to lower it and thus improve the emulation speed. so its just not strange for you to see an 1/100...200 of the native x64 speed under qemu/SPARC64 i hoped that someone will jump u

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Luehring
YES value: 0x1234 done On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 29.07.2015 um 14:34 schrieb Karel Gardas: >> >> Once it boots, tell me how to find the asnwers to your >> questions. > > > compile with gcc test.cpp and run > > ---

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 29.07.2015 um 14:34 schrieb Karel Gardas: Once it boots, tell me how to find the asnwers to your questions. compile with gcc test.cpp and run --- #include #include #include #include #include int main() { uint16_t value = 0x1234; { volatile uint8_t* ptr = (uint8_t*)&

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 29.07.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Karel Gardas: What was interesting was that nbench2 was comparable on aarch64 was aarch64 a little or big-endian system, with unaligned accesses possible?

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 29.07.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Karel Gardas: If anybody is interested I can dig those old emails. would be nice

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-29 Thread Dennis Luehring
UMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7 Am 28.07.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Dennis Luehring wrote: > (i've posted the question already on qemu-disc...@nongnu.org but was toled > to better use this mailing list) > > i've prepared an Debian 7.8.0 ima

Re: [Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-28 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 28.07.2015 um 11:54 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko: >anything i can do to speedup the emulation? Maybe try the fresh tcg optimizer improvements from Aurelien: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-07/msg05133.html it don't seems to target sparc (or isn't ready) many x86/x64 only etc.

[Qemu-devel] Debian 7.8.0 SPARC64 on qemu - anything i can do to speedup the emulation?

2015-07-28 Thread Dennis Luehring
(i've posted the question already on qemu-disc...@nongnu.org but was toled to better use this mailing list) i've prepared an Debian 7.8.0 image for SPARC64/qemu emulation for C/C++ development before-real-hardware big-endian/unaligned tests i've benchmarked compiling of single pugixml.cpp (htt

Re: [Qemu-devel] can't boot debian wheezy sparc in qemu

2014-07-17 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 18.07.2014 00:22, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: On 17/07/14 07:43, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 16.07.2014 00:21, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: >> At the moment my work is focused on getting the basic system emulation >> up and running, so I haven't spent much time looking at the

Re: [Qemu-devel] can't boot debian wheezy sparc in qemu

2014-07-16 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 16.07.2014 00:21, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: At the moment my work is focused on getting the basic system emulation up and running, so I haven't spent much time looking at the graphics side at all. I have noticed that the kernel falls back to the dummy console during boot, so perhaps it is una

[Qemu-devel] can't boot debian wheezy sparc in qemu

2014-07-14 Thread Dennis Luehring
i've followed the avices on Artyom Tarasenko's blog to install debian wheezy sparc on qemu but qemu won't boot the graphical installation with -nographic the debian default installation seems to work is this a known bug? these are my installation steps fresh ubuntu 14.04 x64 (3.13.0-30-generi

Re: [Qemu-devel] virtualize sparc developer workstation?

2014-07-09 Thread Dennis Luehring
Am 08.07.2014 00:15, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: Sadly sun4u support isn't quite there yet; it's enough to boot Linux (and with git master you can actually start booting the *BSD kernels and Solaris) but there are still some issues with the device tree that need to be resolved in order for this to

[Qemu-devel] virtualize sparc developer workstation?

2014-07-05 Thread dennis luehring
i want to virtualize my noisy sparc workstation with the help of qemu and want to know if its possible to get an system image to run or what other options available for sparc virtualization im developing a low-traffic network communication software and sparc is one of my test platforms is the sp

[Qemu-devel] virtualize sparc developer workstation?

2014-07-05 Thread dennis luehring
i want to virtualize (under a linux x86 host) my noisy sparc workstation with the help of qemu and want to know if its possible to get an system image to run or what other options available for sparc virtualization im developing a low-traffic network communication software and sparc is one of my