ARM support

[Piotr Szturmaj]

Iain Buclaw wrote:
> 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.

It seems that Ubuntu Precise has QEMU 1.0.50, but according to 
README.TXT which is hosted with those images, you'd need version 1.1.0 
or later.