From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 16 05:03:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371867FC for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:03:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from garmitage@swin.edu.au) Received: from gpo3.cc.swin.edu.au (gpo3.cc.swin.edu.au [136.186.1.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CFBB8FC0A for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [136.186.229.44] (garmitage3.caia.swin.edu.au [136.186.229.44]) by gpo3.cc.swin.edu.au (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qBG52bZ7017557 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:02:52 +1100 Message-ID: <50CD55ED.8020000@swin.edu.au> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:02:37 +1100 From: grenville armitage User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111003 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/armv6 for QEMU References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:03:07 -0000 On 12/06/2012 18:52, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > Hello, > > I've just finished first version of VersatilePB support for FreeBSD/armv6. > QEMU uses this machine as a base for armv6 emulation. > > Full patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~gonzo/arm/qemu/versatilepb.diff > Build/run info: http://kernelnomicon.org/?p=229 [..] Just wanted to publicly say Thanks! I recently started dabbling with emulating embedded devices (for possible educational use), and your patches worked nicely. I managed to boot and run my own build of your patched -CURRENT kernel under qemu 1.1.1 (qemu-devel on a FreeBSD 8 host) with modest reliability (I can establish network connectivity, ssh in to the guest, run basic executables, but while trying to build a simple Port the guest OS stopped responding to anything but ping). I know your blog says I shouldn't try qemu 1.1.1, but I couldn't resist ;) Under qemu 1.3.0 (on a WinXP Host) the VersatilePB guest successfully built a number of small-ish ports (tmux, ushare, gmake, ..) without freezing or crashing. cheers, gja