ARM support

Piotr Szturmaj bncrbme at jadamspam.pl
Tue Jan 14 14:36:31 PST 2014


Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:25:17 +0100
> schrieb Piotr Szturmaj <bncrbme at jadamspam.pl>:
>
>> Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>> QEMU testing is quirky.  If your lucky and get it working, don't
>>> make any system changes. :o)
>>
>> What do you mean exactly?
>>
>>> Saying that, ARM is the only emulation that I've gotten working
>>> where I've actually built GDC ontop of.
>>
>> For anyone interested:
>>
>> Here are prebuilt Debian Squeeze(2.6.32) / Wheezy(3.2.0) images for
>> Versatile/QEMU: http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/armel/ (link
>> taken from http://wiki.redsleeve.org/index.php/QEMU). They should
>> work out of the box :-)
>>
>> Here's guide on emulating Versatile platform (it's based on older
>> Debian Etch): http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php
>>
>> I think GDC should run on plain Debian Wheezy just fine.
>
> I actually used that VM image some time ago. My main problem was that
> qemu crashed often, but that could have been my fault.

How long ago? Because these images seem to be updated frequently (actual 
images are from december 2013). I think I can take a look and prepare 
working QEMU + VM image for auto tester. I just need some free time...

> Compiling on QEMU is quite slow IIRC, but Brad would have to decide if
> an emulator solution or a real board is better for the auto tester.

Ok, but personally I would never compile on the board (slow!). I would 
rather use a cross-compiler.

> Do you have any experience with the cubieboard (1)?

Sorry, no.

 > I think SATA would
> be quite nice cause SD-cards are a real bottleneck when compiling. But
> I never used one of those boards so I don't know how well they're
> working...

I recall that with Raspberry Pi I was using network file system hosted 
on my local machine. SD card was used only for boot. It worked pretty good.


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