Trying to get MALTA64 running under qemu

[Adrian Chadd]

Would you please post an updated recipe for what you've done to get
freebsd-mips64 up on qemu-devel?

I'm about to sit down and help Craig figure out how to integrate
emulator testing of the base freebsd system, and I'd like that to
include booting and testing on MIPS64.

Thanks!


-a


On 19 October 2014 15:34, Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:
> 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
>