[Qemu-devel] Re: FreeBSD qemu-devel git snapshot port update up for testing

[Juergen Lock]

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