Hi, Sorry for cross-posting. Sparc host support for Qemu is getting close to ready, I can already run a Sparc32 system emulator on OpenBSD/Sparc64 and there is some limited success with recent glibc on Linux/Sparc64. Otherwise Sparc32 target emulator is pretty stable. Sparc64 target emulator can boot from several CD images, but crashes pretty soon. But I think we could already start early drafting of what KVM support for Sparc32 and Sparc64 would mean. Because of certain problems in the V9 instruction set design (V8 rett reuse for example), it may be difficult or even impossible to use an accelerator if the host and target instruction sets do not match. Other possibilities include porting kqemu or Xen, but I think KVM has the brightest future. I'm interested in pushing the Qemu side forward, but obviously something needs to be done by the kernel/KVM people too. What is the feeling on KVM and Sparclinux side? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
