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Date:      Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:00:34 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        mlfbsd@ci0.org
Cc:        stas@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD under skyeye
Message-ID:  <20071109.090034.-524878097.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071109154712.GA51100@ci0.org>
References:  <20071109152203.GA50755@ci0.org> <20071109144932.GG899@dracon.ht-systems.ru> <20071109154712.GA51100@ci0.org>

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In message: <20071109154712.GA51100@ci0.org>
            Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd@ci0.org> writes:
: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 05:49:32PM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:22:03PM +0100 Olivier Houchard mentioned:
: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 04:31:53PM +0300, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
: > > > Hi!
: > > > 
: > > > I'm new to embedded world, so it's probably a stupid question...
: > > > 
: > > > Have anyone tryed to run FreeBSD under skyeye? I've seen the
: > > > config for this simulator, but when I run the SKYEYE kernel
: > > > under the simulator, it doesn't output anything to screen.
: > > > Probably I need specific configuration?
: > > > 
: > > > Thanks!
: > > > 
: > > > -- 
: > > > Stanislav Sedov
: > > > ST4096-RIPE
: > > 
: > > Hi Stanislav,
: > > 
: > > I haven't tried to boot FreeBSD on skyeye for quite some time, it is possible
: > > it is just broken.
: > > The skyeye.conf I used can be find here :
: > > http://people.FreeBSD.org/~cognet/skyeye.conf
: > > If it doesn't work then it's my fault :), I'll have a look at this later.
: > > 
: > 
: > Am I correctly understand, that smth. about
: > skyeye -d -c skyeye.conf -e /usr/obj/arm/usr/src/sys/SKYEYE/kernel
: > 
: > should run the kernel and print some boot info to console?
: > 
: > I've attached gdb to it, but it shows that the kernel is stopped
: > at the entry point (_start), probably the skyeye itself is broken...
: > 
: 
: Yes that's the correct procedure.
: If it's stopped at the _start address, it's probably a memory mapping issue.
:
: > BTW, is there any good emulators that can run FreeBSD? Is qemu
: > capable to run FreeBSD kernel?
: 
: AFAIK qemu won't run FreeBSD, however last time I tried, gxemul would run a
: slightly stripped down IQ31244 kernel. The kernel config I used can be found 
: here :
: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~cognet/IQGXEMUL

qemu may run FreeBSD/mips, but that's not in the tree.  Also, doing a
port to one of the boards that qemu supports shouldn't be too
horrible.  I know of at least one underway (for the NEO phone).

Warner




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