Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 15:49:56 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@freebsd.org> To: Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> Cc: "freebsd-mips@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to get MALTA64 running under qemu Message-ID: <CACVs6=9Q8r=GNQ7hWOovQXZ97NXnC6=Jr5UTiBdirid31AwvrQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20141019223447.GB12023@anubis.morrow.me.uk> References: <20141018225950.GA12023@anubis.morrow.me.uk> <CAJ-Vmon5yFb7z5gDAZ4StAOY%2B05dBjd8w9u1PWZHR_ihynk9Ow@mail.gmail.com> <20141019223447.GB12023@anubis.morrow.me.uk>
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On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote: > Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 18 October 2014 15:59, Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> wrote: > > > I'm considering buying an ERL to use as a local router, but before I > did > > > I thought I'd make sure the ports I want to run work properly with > MIPS, > > > so I'm trying to bring up a qemu-system-mips64 instance. I've built > > > world and kernel (using MALTA64) for mips.mips64, and built a disk > image > > > following the instructions on the MipsEmulation page on the wiki. The > > > source I am using is a slightly patched 10-STABLE from 2014-09-09; the > > > patches have nothing to do with MIPS. > > > > > > However, when I try to bring qemu up, the system appears to hang after > > > probing the ata devices. Over the course of about 30 seconds the qemu > > > process goes up to 100% of one CPU, and no more output appears on the > > > console. This appears to happen regardless of the disk images I pass to > > > qemu; I've tried passing a UFS image, a file full of zeros, no disks at > > > all, and (just in case) both -hda and -hdc. I've included the boot log > > > below; I'd appreciate any advice. > > > > can you try qemu-devel? > > Thank you, that works. (Good God, it's slow... I wonder how hard it > would be to replace cc with something that runs a cross-compiler on the > host? Maybe I can do something with distcc...) > The optimal thing here is to use a user-mode emulator, whereby you can effectively run a MIPS userland through qemu on a FreeBSD host, so all of the kernel stuff is being done natively — which is a lot for things like package building; others have done this for ARM, and I believe that one of the groups using FreeBSD/MIPS was looking at doing so for MIPS as well for the sake of package builds, etc. You might create a new thread for user-mode MIPS emulation to see if any of the right people notice and respond, or perhaps dig into what the ARM folks have done. Thanks, Juli.home | help
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