Date: Sun, 07 Feb 2021 19:33:47 +0100 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= <mgorny@gentoo.org> To: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for shell access for (minimal) LLDB testing Message-ID: <36d34d7adb224f1bb9daf3d2a3484096f28f5696.camel@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <d3533c86-b9d8-72c3-8eaa-22d3c9b23224@gmail.com> References: <d38de711f8018b29a8691094e13f6c42cfd9733a.camel@gentoo.org> <20210203133122.6518402f@ralga.knownspace> <d3533c86-b9d8-72c3-8eaa-22d3c9b23224@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 07:24 -0600, Jason Bacon wrote: > On 2/3/21 1:31 PM, Justin Hibbits wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:16:38 +0100 > > Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm working on modernizing LLDB's FreeBSD support. As a part of that, > > > I have to port all architecture-specific code to a new process plugin > > > architecture, and I'd prefer to test that my code actually works ;-). > > > > > > Sadly, FWICS FreeBSD doesn't work under qemu-system-ppc [1], and my > > > attempts seem to confirm that. For this reason I'd like to ask -- > > > would someone be able to grant me user-privilege shell access to a > > > machine (or VM) running 32-bit FreeBSD on PowerPC for a few days? > > > > > > I probably won't need root access, though rsync(1) installed would be > > > helpful. I'm going to need around 1G of disk space but I can try to > > > squeeze in less than that if necessary. All builds are done on my > > > home machine via a cross-compiler, so I won't be using much CPU or > > > memory, just some network bandwidth to transfer the data. > > > > > > TIA for your help. > > > > > > [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuRecipes#powerpc > > > > > Hi Michał, > > > > I don't have a 32-bit powerpc system available for you to use, but you > > should be able to run lldb just fine on the FreeBSD powerpc64 Qemu > > recipe. Do you need a 32-bit kernel, or just 32-bit userland? > > > > If you need a 32-bit kernel, I have successfully run FreeBSD on a > > Book-E qemu, so if you can build a MPC85XX kernel, you can run in that. > > > > - Justin > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > I had some trouble with FreeBSD under qemu a while back and the solution > was to specify am older cpu architecture, namely > pseries-2.5: That's nice to know. I've tried different CPU brands but it didn't occur to me to try an older one. This would be nice to have on the wiki. However, I don't think I can edit it. -- Best regards, Michał Górnyhome | help
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