Re: [PATCH 00/27] sparc32: sunset sun4m and sun4d

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi Sam,

On Wed, 2023-12-20 at 16:22 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > The leon3_generic machine is maintained by different people so I'd suggest
> > contacting them: see [1] for their contact details. I see there is an
> > avocado boot test for the leon3_generic machine included within the QEMU
> > source tree, but it uses a downloadable image of HelenOS rather than Linux.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer, I will try to reach out to them when I have
> something a bit more solid than "it does not work".
> 
> I tried to hack around a little in qemu and I have an idea where things
> goes wrong. The leon_generic assumes another address layout than what is
> used by the kernel, so the very first jump to a kernel address fails.

I would argue that before we start introducing larger changes to arch/sparc,
we should settle the maintainership question first. Once we have an active
maintainer again, we can have a more extended discussion about what to keep
and how to name things.

Adrian

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