From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 22 13:11:27 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE0F382F for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:11:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbb@semihalf.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f52.google.com (mail-ee0-f52.google.com [74.125.83.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D8B62C19 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:11:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ee0-f52.google.com with SMTP id c41so900510eek.25 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:11:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:organization:user-agent :mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7R13iPXP7W1X3Ok3/YgYW4iipKqjRFt0AghL3cAYjmk=; b=iDX6jwpPOKgj1nxu1d1E+k+edQ+6f3oIH4NWsEZh9ntjmH96l1mXptSz2ATUzHx18L D0Agc/dM1K3PIOWcUDe0SqLuuBzncyMhHRcv76ePXDJppF5kI7ZWHeW4Cv3LxHZiUbHZ P2KmXIxbkqWTa3WFy1tkFutIZxZgdLJYqOmwov1nGArmZRVC0pMCYDfgvs9crXJ3aVU5 7w4klHwPTAo9hG3GXRcoM0s5HzsYsZaDhzDv2DwoOal2PapgyVWXj9n1+NTH2yXSMXWY JhXdD12eTDMoSkiSGRvnY89YG4CrtzAYVXBUKTu3Uo1Tg6paZo9xM3U4YdvHy+LlZ8+F t5oQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQll0uLwdJ7MN5+ld1IiEEBzepuzFvAOS4Os6ZaCVScfevlMatZ8kVeTE4MNU0MnopIoBmwK X-Received: by 10.14.184.3 with SMTP id r3mr18797570eem.49.1377177085421; Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.2.117] (cardhu.semihalf.com. [213.17.239.108]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r48sm17462773eev.14.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 22 Aug 2013 06:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <52160DFA.5050909@semihalf.com> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:11:22 +0200 From: Zbyszek Bodek Organization: Semihalf User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130803 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: Introduction to the superpages support for ARMv6/v7 References: <5214EAE6.6040300@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" , Alan Cox 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: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 13:11:27 -0000 Hello Adrian, I understand. However I'm not familiar with any free software that could do that. So I'm afraid that I can't really help in that matter :( Best regards Zbyszek Bodek On 22.08.2013 07:04, Adrian Chadd wrote: > Hi, > > Yes, I'm much more interested in a software CPU emulator for various ARM > platforms. > > Are there any ARM emulators (eg qemu) that can start booting FreeBSD ARM > - but then fail, because we're missing disk/console/net/etc support? > > Basically - I'd like to finish off the ARM/MIPS/PPC/Sparc emulation > environment support for FreeBSD so people like Alan, Jeff and others who > hack on things like the VM and memory allocation framework have a chance > of testing on these platforms before they commit stuff that may break > them.:) > > > > -adrian > > > > On 21 August 2013 16:43, Zbigniew Bodek > wrote: > > 2013/8/21 Adrian Chadd > > > Hi! > > I like your ARM work very much. Is there any emulator that we > can spin up to actually test this stuff out? > > > > > -adrian > > Hello Adrian, > > Thank you. > > If you are referring to some soft that emulates ARMv7 (instead of > using HW platform), then there is none that > I know about which allows to run FreeBSD in multiuser. Or I > misunderstood your question? > > Regarding HW platforms, then all ARMv6/v7-based devices supported by > FreeBSD should be able to take advantage > of superpages. > > Best regards > Zbyszek Bodek > >