From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57CFD8A1 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f175.google.com (mail-lb0-f175.google.com [209.85.217.175]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A8F91F8BD for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:16:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f175.google.com with SMTP id 10so3722959lbg.6 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:16:52 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <53F16E14.6030507@landley.net> References: <53E38ED5.9000300@samsung.com> <53E43365.50809@hitachi.com> <53E8CF03.6020308@samsung.com> <53E8EB93.8030301@hitachi.com> <20140812130043.4894DC40C5C@trevor.secretlab.ca> <53EB8E4F.9090008@roeck-us.net> <53F16E14.6030507@landley.net> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:16:52 +0200 Message-ID: From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Rob Landley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Shuah Khan , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] kselftest - What's in 3.17 and plans for 3.18 and beyond List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hi Rob, On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:08 AM, Rob Landley wrote: > (My dayjob has nothing to do with anything interesting, I'm paid to work > on a a company's fork of a vendor's bsp fork of a really old kernel. For > the new board, we just upgraded _to_ a version that's only 4 years old. > When they finally ship there will be a nominal compliance tarball put on > a website somewhere that nobody will ever look at or care about. I keep > meaning to put up a patreon to see if people would be willing to sponsor > me to spend all my time on actually _interesting_ stuff like this, but > the chances are low enough I haven't bothered.) > >> I have been unable to find a working combination of kernel configuration, >> qemu version, qemu command line, and root file system for m68k. Presumably >> that must exist, because qemu supports m68k, I just have not been able >> to figure out how to make it work. > > QEMU does not support m68k, qemu supports coldfire which is a nommu > subset of m68k. But people have used the aranym emulator to fake an > atari machine that _has_ run the root filesystems I've been building. > (With a different kernel config, and a largeish patch for aranym devices > that since went upstream. But it showed the basics were right.) These days atari_defconfig in upstream should run fine on ARAnyM. > The problem with using aranym is my setup expects a certain pile of > devices. If /dev/console goes to stdin/stdout than it's easy to script > the sucker with tcl/expect and log the output with "tee". If you have a Ah, ARAnyM's nfcon only does stdout, not stdin. > virtual network card you can move the heavy lifting of compilation > outside the emulator with distcc hooked up to the cross compiler But nfeth works fine. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds