Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:11:22 +0200 From: Zbyszek Bodek <zbb@semihalf.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>, Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu> Subject: Re: Introduction to the superpages support for ARMv6/v7 Message-ID: <52160DFA.5050909@semihalf.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=cpq=GUU8FB2YAWrjdDgzsGtz=h_bpMYZpC11U_i=o1Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <5214EAE6.6040300@semihalf.com> <CAJ-VmomjFvjLr%2BewzmfvXSOQ_fHR0LiUaLv7Zfrc1QStr8B69A@mail.gmail.com> <CAG7dG%2Bx7R7_7AxFFoatd3fhhUXhMZUXE20E91xs976SrNxiRhg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-Vmo=cpq=GUU8FB2YAWrjdDgzsGtz=h_bpMYZpC11U_i=o1Q@mail.gmail.com>
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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 <zbb@semihalf.com > <mailto:zbb@semihalf.com>> wrote: > > 2013/8/21 Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org <mailto:adrian@freebsd.org>> > > 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 > >
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