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Re: Byte-swapping issue on qemu-user for sparc64 guest
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz |
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Re: Byte-swapping issue on qemu-user for sparc64 guest |
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Fri, 10 Feb 2023 17:05:56 +0100 |
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Hi Thomas!
On Fri, 2023-02-10 at 16:52 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 10/02/2023 16.23, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > Hi!
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> > There is an unaddressed issue in qemu-user [1] which results in getresuid()
> > returning an incorrect UID due to a byte-swapping issue on sparc64.
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> Oh, there are still people out there using qemu-user on sparc64 hosts? ...
This is about running sparc64 binaries on x86_64.
> that reminds me of another outstanding issue which might occur there:
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> https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg04240.html
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> ... in case someone has time for fixing this ... (I unfortunately never
> found enough spare time again to revisit the issue).
We're still maintaining a sparc64 port in Debian, FWIW.
Adrian
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