Building Kyua inside qemu mips VM

Craig Rodrigues rodrigc at FreeBSD.org
Sun Feb 15 19:08:37 UTC 2015


Can you to https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation the command-line
flags to QEMU
that allow usage of this NIC?

Thanks.



On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Yeah, it does:
>
> le0: <AMD PCnet-PCI> irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0
> le0: Lazy allocation of 0x20 bytes rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x120
> le0: 16 receive buffers, 4 transmit buffers
> le0: bpf attached
> le0: Ethernet address: 52:54:00:12:34:56
>
> (I'm doing a buildworld right now inside it.)
>
>
> -adrian
>
>
> On 15 February 2015 at 10:55, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > Also, can the MALTA kernel config support any network drivers compatible
> > with QEMU?
> > I didn't see anything compiled into the default kernel config, but I
> might
> > have missed it.
> >
> > --
> > Craig
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Have you tried any of these options to cross-build ports:
> >>
> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuUserModeHowTo
> >>
> >> Those options look complicated, but workable.
> >> --
> >> Craig
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ... ask the ports people to support cross-building as a "thing" one can
> >>> do?
> >>>
> >>> All of those ports you've mentioned should be a perfectly good target
> >>> for cross-building; I've done them before individually.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -adrian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:23, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at freebsd.org>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Adrian,
> >>> >
> >>> > I am continuing on the work started in the Hackathon which
> >>> > you organized in January.  I have this Jenkins job which
> >>> > builds a UFS image built for mips using the MALTA kernel config:
> >>> >
> >>> > https://jenkins.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD_HEAD_mips32_be/
> >>> >
> >>> > I am using this invocation of QEMU to boot the image with 256MB RAM:
> >>> >
> >>> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/MipsEmulation#Configuring_QEMU
> >>> >
> >>> > I am now trying to build /usr/ports/devel/kyua
> >>> > inside the VM, so that I can do "cd /usr/tests ; kyua test" to run
> >>> > all the tests.
> >>> >
> >>> > However, building kyua and all its dependencies (atf, sqlite, lua,
> >>> > lutok)
> >>> > is taking a really long time inside this VM, on the order of many
> >>> > hours.
> >>> >
> >>> > Is there something I can do to boost performance so I can at least
> >>> > build
> >>> > kyua faster in this VM?
> >>> >
> >>> > --
> >>> > Craig
> >>
> >>
> >
>


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