Introduction to the superpages support for ARMv6/v7

[Zbyszek Bodek]

Hello Adrian,

I understand. However I'm not familiar with any free software that could
do that. So I'm afraid that I can't really help in that matter :(

Best regards
Zbyszek Bodek

On 22.08.2013 07:04, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, I'm much more interested in a software CPU emulator for various ARM
> platforms.
> 
> Are there any ARM emulators (eg qemu) that can start booting FreeBSD ARM
> - but then fail, because we're missing disk/console/net/etc support?
> 
> Basically - I'd like to finish off the ARM/MIPS/PPC/Sparc emulation
> environment support for FreeBSD so people like Alan, Jeff and others who
> hack on things like the VM and memory allocation framework have a chance
> of testing on these platforms before they commit stuff that may break
> them.:)
> 
> 
> 
> -adrian
> 
> 
> 
> On 21 August 2013 16:43, Zbigniew Bodek <zbb at semihalf.com
> <mailto:zbb at semihalf.com>> wrote:
> 
>     2013/8/21 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org <mailto:adrian at freebsd.org>>
> 
>         Hi!
> 
>         I like your ARM work very much. Is there any emulator that we
>         can spin up to actually test this stuff out?
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         -adrian
> 
>     Hello Adrian,
> 
>     Thank you.
> 
>     If you are referring to some soft that emulates ARMv7 (instead of
>     using HW platform), then there is none that
>     I know about which allows to run FreeBSD in multiuser. Or I
>     misunderstood your question?
> 
>     Regarding HW platforms, then all ARMv6/v7-based devices supported by
>     FreeBSD should be able to take advantage
>     of superpages.
> 
>     Best regards
>     Zbyszek Bodek
> 
>