Trying to get MALTA64 running under qemu

[Ben Morrow]

Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 18 October 2014 15:59, Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> > I'm considering buying an ERL to use as a local router, but before I did
> > I thought I'd make sure the ports I want to run work properly with MIPS,
> > so I'm trying to bring up a qemu-system-mips64 instance. I've built
> > world and kernel (using MALTA64) for mips.mips64, and built a disk image
> > following the instructions on the MipsEmulation page on the wiki. The
> > source I am using is a slightly patched 10-STABLE from 2014-09-09; the
> > patches have nothing to do with MIPS.
> >
> > However, when I try to bring qemu up, the system appears to hang after
> > probing the ata devices. Over the course of about 30 seconds the qemu
> > process goes up to 100% of one CPU, and no more output appears on the
> > console. This appears to happen regardless of the disk images I pass to
> > qemu; I've tried passing a UFS image, a file full of zeros, no disks at
> > all, and (just in case) both -hda and -hdc. I've included the boot log
> > below; I'd appreciate any advice.
>
> can you try qemu-devel?

Thank you, that works. (Good God, it's slow... I wonder how hard it
would be to replace cc with something that runs a cross-compiler on the
host? Maybe I can do something with distcc...)

Ben