Re: Removing architectures without upstream gcc support

[Guenter Roeck]

On 02/23/2018 01:34 PM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 02:32:08PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 18:19 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > [...]
> > > IIRC, parisc/qemu stuff had been announced a while ago;
> >
> > I have, but it didn't work sufficiently for me to either boot a kernel
> > using system emulation or start an architecture container using user
> > emulation. ÂI'll try again now that qemu has gone through several
> > revisions.
>
> Doesn't seem to work.  Debian package (1:2.11+dfsg-1) ships hppa support but
> it doesn't even install binfmt; otherwise, -user is functional enough for a
> minimal executable (so arch-test reports it as working[1]), but not for
> anything libc:
>
> [/srv/chroots/hppa]# chroot . /usr/bin/qemu-hppa-static /bin/true
> qemu-hppa-static: /build/qemu-v8TF72/qemu-2.11+dfsg/target/hppa/translate.c:422: nullify_end: Assertion `status != DISAS_NORETURN && status != DISAS_IAQ_N_UPDATED' failed.
> Segmentation fault
>
> This looks bad enough that I didn't even look at qemu-system.

qemu-system-hppa support was added to qemu end of January. It seems to boot fine,
only I lost my ability to build a root file system :-( so it may take a bit
for me to create one.

Guenter