linux-kernel - Re: commit f6be75d03c88 broke qemu-system-mips64.

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20100908074248.GB9501@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:42:48 +0200
From:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
To:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Dearman <chris@...s.com>
Subject: Re: commit f6be75d03c88 broke qemu-system-mips64.

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:29:28AM -0700, David Daney wrote:

> >You'll need QEMU installed.  Note that Ubuntu's qemu package is actually
> >kqemu, and doesn't support any non-x86 targets.  You need to install
> >"qemu-kvm-extras" to get _actual_ qemu.  I don't know why they broke this.
> >
> >Once you've confirmed it used to work, replace the zImage-mips64 file with a
> >vmlinux built using the attached .config and ./run-emulator.sh again.  If you
> >build f6be75d03c88 it fails, but f6be75d03c88^1 works.  If you build 2.6.35
> >but revert the f6be75d03c88 patch (all one line of it), it works.  If you don't
> >revert it, v2.6.35 is still broken.
> >
> >Rob
> 
> Has anybody tried it on a real 64-bit Malta?  Perhaps the emulator
> is broken.

There is no MIPS64 R2 core for the Malta.  I think the best evidence pointing
to an emulator issue is that the current code is working on Cavium.

  Ralf
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/