[bug#45742] [PATCH] gnu: Add x86emu.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice]

Vincent,

Vincent Legoll 写道：
> * gnu/packages/linux.scm (x86emu): New variable.

I don't see the connection to Linux.  How about emulators.scm?

> +(define-public x86emu

There's at least one other x86emu (declared obsolete upstream[0]) 
and I wouldn't be surprised if there were twenty.  But if (this) 
upstream insists on such a generic name, so be it.

What's your use case for this package?  Is it a fun hack, or more?

> +         (replace 'build
> +           (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)
> +             (invoke "make" "all")))

The ‘all’ is presumably to build the ‘os’ (bios + sample kernel) 
images, but they aren't installed below.  Is that intentional?

The emulator is useless without them:

 $ x86emu
 [WARN] run_emulator (main.cpp:141) cannot load image
 'sample/kernel.img'
 Segmentation fault

 $ x86emu .../sample/kernel.img
 [hangs]

 $ strace x86emu .../sample/kernel.img
 [...]
 openat(AT_FDCWD, "bios/bios.bin", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
 openat(AT_FDCWD, "bios/crt0.bin", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
 [hangs]

Put them in a separate :os output if you like[1].

> +         (replace 'install
> +           (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys)

‘inputs’ is unused.

> +             (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))
> +                    (outbin (string-append out "/bin")))

Subjective nitpick: please just call this ‘bin’ :-)

> +               (mkdir-p outbin)
> +               (copy-file "x86emu" (string-append outbin 
> "/x86emu"))

These two lines can be replaced with the simpler:

 (install-file "x86emu" bin)

> +               (copy-recursively "include" (string-append out 
> "/include"))
> +               #t))))))
> +    (native-inputs
> +     `(("nasm" ,nasm)))
> +    (inputs
> +     `(("glfw" ,glfw)))
> +    (home-page "https://github.com/shift-crops/x86emu";)
> +    (synopsis "simple x86 emulator")

Running ‘guix lint x86emu’ will point out possible issues, like 
this lowercase s.

> +    (description "x86emu is an emulator of the x86 
> architecture.  It supports
> +multiple CPU modes (16bit/32bit, Real/Protected), and some 
> devices.  You can
> +boot via FDD simulator (DMA not supported), and operate with 
> mouse and keyboard.")
> +    (license license:x11))))

This should be ‘expat’.  The X11 variant is extremely rare.

I made these changes (and a few more) in the attached patch and 
the emulator starts, but hangs on a black screen with

 [WARN] hundle_interrupt (interrupt.cpp:40) exception interrupt 
 11 (!idt.P)

looped on stderr.  I didn't look into it.

Thanks!

T G-R

[0]: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090218022239/http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/dev/x86_emulator.html
[1]: I'm not sure where they belong.  They're x86 but 
‘architecture independent’ from the host's point of view so I put 
them in /share nonetheless.

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