Hi there,
On 29 Mar 2006, at 00:58, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:39:02PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote:
Hi all,
I'm desperately trying to get a MIPS emulator running Linux, and
while
I've managed to get gxemul and (I think) qemu running, I can't for
the
life of me get them to (1) output anything or (2) use an initrd.
Can anyone post some instructions and, perhaps, a .config for
2.6.16 so
I can get some output like kernel boot messages and a login screen?
I've got gxemul emulating code and running a kernel, which I can
test by
stopping emulation and stepping the code. Qemu seems to boot my
qemu-specific kernel but I get no output and qemu appears to hang
(won't
take keyboard input).
VGA support for qemu isn't there yet, use -nographics to get the
serial
console output.
I can't seem to get either emulator to load my
initrd, but that doesn't really matter at this stage since I can't
see
anything anyway (I have no idea how to using gxemul, and qemu
refuses to
load the image).
Current qemu confuses virtual and physical adresses when loading
initrds,
this and a bunch of other bugs are fixed in a set of patches I have.
Note that these are work in progress, and may cause different bugs.
Notably, the gcc4 support patch won't work on x86, and probably
only on
powerpc. It has, however, emulated IDE support, I use a self-compiled
qemu kernel and a Debian/mips image to boot from, no ramdisk. The
patchset is available at
http://people.debian.org/~ths/qemu-patches-bogus/
Use at your own risk.
Thanks for all the help, I've now got a step further (I think) and
get a few boot messages from 2.6.16, and it appears as though my
initrd loads. However, it gets stuck early in the boot process:
bootc@arcadia nsfdb $ qemu-system-mips -kernel linux-2.6.16/arch/mips/
boot/vmlinux.bin -nographic -initrd buildroot/rootfs.mips.squashfs
(qemu) mips_r4k_init: load BIOS '/usr/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin' size
131072
Linux version 2.6.16 (bootc@arcadia) (gcc version 3.4.6) #9 Wed Mar
29 16:35:35 BST 2006
CPU revision is: 00018000
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0
Primary instruction cache 2kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16
bytes.
Primary data cache 2kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (19 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (31 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (30 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 16384 bytes)
Using 100.000 MHz high precision timer.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Memory: 128480k/131072k available (907k kernel code, 2556k reserved,
172k data, 96k init, 0k highmem)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
Checking for 'wait' instruction... available.
At this stage it gets stuck and I have to kill qemu. Any ideas how to
debug this? I've only applied the elf-loader patch since I was having
trouble applying some of the others to my Ubuntu qemu 0.8.0.
Many thanks,
Chris
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Chris Boot
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