spice has a number of portability issues which prevent it from working on !x86 architectures: * x86 inline assembler. * little endian assumtions all over the place. Additionally for the spice server: * assumes some 64bit arithmetic ops are atomic.
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Updating to rawhide as still a problem there. I wonder if something like orc could replace the asm for platform independence
I made the x86 inline assembly in the spice module optional a while ago. But the other issues that Gert raised still remain (little-endian assumptions and atomic 64 bit ops assumptions).
> the other issues that Gert raised still remain (little-endian assumptions > and atomic 64 bit ops assumptions). Neither of these are an issue for ARMv6+ as it supports atomics and little-endian.
Created attachment 610711 [details] Patch to configure.ac The following patch enables it to build on ARM platforms that support atomics. Test build on on ARMv7.
Created attachment 610712 [details] Patch for spec This patch adds support for building on supported ARM platforms and has a few minor cleanups too
The above two patches applied I tried the build on armv7hl and tested the resulting binary on an ARMv7 device running Fedora 18. Using firefox connecting to a RHEV-M instance I could launch consoles in spice-xpi and login so basic support works! http://arm.koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1123736 I'm not 100% sure the ARM directive is efficient as it could be. Platforms < ARMv6 don't support atomics.
can this also be tested/built on Fedora17 ? So that it can become available in the update repos before Fedora18 GA ?
Patch is upstream http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/spice/commit/?id=07426f3c4ff05540263d8f27f92b3a5676e27f96 now
(In reply to comment #7) > Created attachment 610712 [details] > Patch for spec > > This patch adds support for building on supported ARM platforms and has a > few minor cleanups too I'm in the process of updating the Fedora spice packages to 0.12.0, which have the necessary configure changes. I've added armv6l armv7l armv7hl to the arch whitelist for this version.
This is now built for ARM on F-18. I need to tweak the ARM side so we can build on ARMv6 and hence possibly run it on Raspberry Pi and other ARMv6 class devices. Not sure if you want to keep this open so PPC can deal with their issues (if it will ever work there).
(In reply to comment #12) > Not sure if you want to keep this open so PPC can deal with their issues (if > it will ever work there). Yes the plan is to keep this open until all use of ExclusiveArch is gone.
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Realistically, are the rest of these issues fixable any time soon? KVM on PPC is getting a decent amount of attention now, as is Fedora PPC. We are going to have to switch virt-manager away from noarch just to handle the spice dep where it isn't available.
There were some ppc patches on the list a while back, but they were never merged :( And this would need to be tested thoroughly...
Whoops, I was wrong about the virt-manager noarch thing, since spice-gtk builds on all archs now.
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