ARM support

[Iain Buclaw]

On 14 January 2014 22:36, Piotr Szturmaj <bncrbme at jadamspam.pl> wrote:
> 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...
>

It doesn't matter when the images was created, it matters what version
of QEMU is running them.  :-)

I tried those images earlier today for instance, none of them worked
on Ubuntu Precise.