Re: etch-m68k in a linux container

2012-12-07 Thread Tuomas Vainikka
On 12/06/2012 10:05 PM, Laurent Vivier wrote: Note3: and for those that want to know the real power of their new m68k machine, I've added in attachement bogomips.c to compute the bogomips and the equivalent 040 cpu frequency. Mine (on a Q6600 a 2.4 Ghz) is: $ ./bogomips Clocking: 132 BogoMi

Re: etch-m68k in a linux container

2012-12-06 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Laurent Vivier wrote: > I think it should be a good idea to play with the linux-user mode of > qemu. Used with the linux containers, you can run real m68k users binary > on an x86 kernel (it means gigabytes of memory, several CPU cores, > Terabytes of SATA disks, gigabits e

Re: etch-m68k in a linux container

2012-12-06 Thread Laurent Vivier
Hi Thorsten, Le jeudi 06 décembre 2012 à 20:56 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > Laurent Vivier dixit: > > >I think it should be a good idea to play with the linux-user mode of > >qemu. > > Does that emulate an MMU? The system mode doesn’t, IIRC. MMU is useless in usermode emulation. > >qemu

Re: etch-m68k in a linux container

2012-12-06 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Laurent Vivier dixit: >I think it should be a good idea to play with the linux-user mode of >qemu. Does that emulate an MMU? The system mode doesn’t, IIRC. >qemu linux-user mode traps guest (m68k) syscalls to translate them to >native ones. It's not perfect. Well right. It also doesn’t catch ge

etch-m68k in a linux container

2012-12-06 Thread Laurent Vivier
Hi guys, as you seem ready to play with simulators to build debian m68k packages, I think it should be a good idea to play with the linux-user mode of qemu. Used with the linux containers, you can run real m68k users binary on an x86 kernel (it means gigabytes of memory, several CPU cores, Terabyt