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Date:      Sun, 6 Oct 2013 11:15:13 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-mips@freebsd.org" <freebsd-mips@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/MIPS emulation
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On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Warner Losh wrote:

>
> On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I've verified that MALTA + mipsel works.
> >
> > I'll check MALTA + mipseb later tonight/tomorrow. I don't know if my qemu
> > package has the relevant patch though; but I'll see if I can get it
> > committed to the port so it isn't such a big problem for us.
> >
> > It's about time that we generated some generic initial rootfs for this
> > stuff as part of the release process.
>
>
> I'd love to ship big-endian mips64 and little endian mips images as part
> of the release process. Maybe 10.0 as a dry/unofficial run with a real run
> in 10.1?
>
> Warner
>

Yup. We should hammer the hell out of the -HEAD emulated images first (ie,
doing buildworlds inside the emulators to ensure that things don't get
overly kinked up) and actively backport fixes from -HEAD to -10 though.)

Now that this is working, I'm going to make good on my promise to take
gonzo's great work and flesh out the missing documentation (ie, rootdev
isn't right by default, the specific bits to put in /etc/fstab, adding a
swap partition, etc) so that everyone can do it. Then, likely, I'll extend
my build scripts to do exactly the documented steps so it will spit out the
relevant images. Then, no excuse.



-adrian



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