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Show HN: LoongArch Userspace Emulator

https://github.com/libriscv/libloong
15•fwsgonzo•4d ago
https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/notes-on-libloong-loongarch-64-b...

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anthk•2h ago
I'd love this for Sparc/Solaris. I know IE5 was propietary, but I would test is with educational purposes (and a perfect example on how libre code can still run under modern Unixen without too many issues unlike IE5)

As libre examples:

- Arena browser

- MosaicCK

- XGopher/Xrn

- VRGopher

- XNedit, even with UTF8 support

- Most window managers

- Most libre Motif applications (and tons of them are really nice)

- Libred Xephem. Yep, I know, Celestia, KSTars, planetaries with even Vulkan support... but for astronomic data, Xephem has zillions of details.

You would say that these tools has no value, until you can quickly edit some EPS file from LaTeX under XFig.

bitwize•1h ago
Qemu can run SPARC binaries and emulate a full SPARC system enough to run Solaris 2.6. Qemu can emulate Loongarch as well!
Imustaskforhelp•2h ago
Fwsgonzo, what a legend man!!

I am not kidding but before seeing this post, I had commented about my experiences in the libriscv discord server (I am the person who had created the AUR arch repository for simplekvm but had to pull them down)

For reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413053#46415223

Call this luck or whatever, but I really appreciate libriscv and I will definitely try to be more active, A ~77% of native and a possible ~90% potentially in a fairly permissive license allows the doors to be opened up for really fast sandboxes.

I recently built a (although private repo) where you can ssh into something and it would directly run wasm and it turns out that you can convert golang directly to wasm (by bootstrapping the golang from scratch using gotip and the help of one stackoverflow post :) )

The reason I didn't try to disclose it was that there was a minor issue in simple logic which kept me bugging me off and I had decided to use AI to basically glue me ssh https://github.com/gliderlabs/ssh with wasm but I wasn't so sure about publishing it after the recent rob-pike's incident and I found it a bit of bad taste to use AI after that and what should be my disclosure policy be but I hope its an acceptable use (of prototyping) considered by the general programming community and let me know if ssh-wasm or similar interests libriscv as I had evaluated libriscv and even installed simplekvm once again after an year or so but it had some issues running a rather simple main.go file and I think that LoongArch can be another good usecase for something like this.

I actually built it and am thinking of creating a simple place where people can upload simple applications (in wasm or any other format) and then get an ssh link, they can ssh into or even an xterm instance or just, quick efficient sandboxing unlocks a lot of opportunities not previously thought of and your project is another step towards it so kudos for building it!

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