Possible to run freebsd mips under QEMU???

Nomen Nescio nobody at dizum.com
Thu Jun 14 08:56:52 UTC 2012


Hi is there any update on this? I would like to be able to run FreeBSD MIPS
and I don't have a MIPS box!

You wrote:

> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > The short answer is yes - I've seen this. I've not done it myself
> > though, I've just acquired cheap mips hardware.
> 
> I'd currently preference the use of GXemul over the use of QEMU.
> GXemul has a built-in test machine that we support disk, networking
> and SMP on now.  I'll try to take the time to write-up complete
> instructions (I've done it so many times I'd surely leave something
> out if I wrote it up right now) in the next few days, or perhaps
> rwatson will, as I know his lab is using GXemul in that way.  We
> should try to get something on the Wiki for this as soon as possible
> as it's a very easy way to get started with FreeBSD on MIPS, and is
> infinitely-useful for debugging and some kinds of performance testing.


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