FreeBSD qemu-devel git snapshot port update up for testing
Juergen Lock
nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Sat Nov 21 19:08:03 UTC 2009
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
More information about the freebsd-emulation
mailing list