From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 21 19:08:02 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1631106568D for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:08:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de) Received: from smtp.kn-bremen.de (gelbbaer.kn-bremen.de [78.46.108.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06F98FC0C for ; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kn-bremen.de (Postfix, from userid 10) id 972601E00712; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:08:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from triton8.kn-bremen.de (noident@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nALJ25sU052236; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:02:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox@triton8.kn-bremen.de) Received: (from nox@localhost) by triton8.kn-bremen.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nALJ25Tk052235; Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:02:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nox) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:02:05 +0100 To: Juergen Lock Message-ID: <20091121190205.GA52224@triton8.kn-bremen.de> References: <20091120234951.GA17631@triton8.kn-bremen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091120234951.GA17631@triton8.kn-bremen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD qemu-devel git snapshot port update up for testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:08:03 -0000 On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 12:49:51AM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > I've made another qemu git snapshot port update, > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20091120.patch > or, alternatively, > http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20091120.shar > and since our emulators/qemu-devel port still is older than the main port > (and thus has been on IGNORE) am thinking about actually committing this > version of the port if no major flaws are found. Soo, testing very much > welcome! :) > > I'm not aware of something like a `condensed' changelog for qemu git > (is there one? The Changelog file in git still stops at 0.10.2), but one > of the major changes was the removal of kqemu support after the 0.11 > branch was created (which I still plan to update the main emulators/qemu > port to, probably after 0.11.1 has been released, so kqemu will still be > available there for a little while longer.) Anyway, more emulated hw > support has been added, internals have been overhauled, and probably > a bunch of other interesting things happened that I forgot. Oh and > the bsd-user targets (currently i386, amd64, and sparc64) are now good > enough to run at least FreeBSD /rescue/bin/echo on FreeBSD, and even > more (like /bin/sh or vim at least on x86) if you emulate the same arch > you are running on. Whats now missing most I think is proper parameter > passing of more syscalls, if someone is interested to help there I think > at least some amount of code can be adapted from linux-user there... > > (And this time I have submitted at least some of the fixes I applied > seperately on the qemu list.) > New version up with corrected plist. (Sorry.) Enjoy, Juergen