Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-arm -M akita/terrier - which roms work? (have first patches now :)

2007-07-27 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:27:33AM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 28/07/07, andrzej zaborowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 26/07/07, Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Okay I got a little further now... > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:13:42PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread n schembr
- Original Message From: Paul Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: n schembr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 1:38:19 PM Subject: Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...) > >As Qemu cannot use mul

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 27/07/07, Paul Borman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The platform I started with was ppc_prep :-) > > So, is Python already part of qemu? Personally, I would have a goal > that the definition of a device would be simple enough that there > would be no reason to have anything more complicated than

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-arm -M akita/terrier - which roms work? (have first patches now :)

2007-07-27 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 28/07/07, andrzej zaborowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/07/07, Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay I got a little further now... > > > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:13:42PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > > On 24/07/07, Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I w

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-system-arm -M akita/terrier - which roms work? (have first patches now :)

2007-07-27 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 26/07/07, Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay I got a little further now... > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:13:42PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > On 24/07/07, Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I was under the impression that -append doesnt work, is this wrong? > >> A

[Qemu-devel] fedora 7, cdrom and GPCMD_GET_EVENT_STATUS_NOTIFICATION

2007-07-27 Thread Matthew Kent
Been digging around for a solution or confirmation of this for a while now without much luck. Forgive me if there's a solution to this I'm just not seeing. Getting some ugly libata related errors in my guest like ata2: DRQ=1 with device error, dev_stat 0x49 ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 S

[Qemu-devel] qemu vl.c vl.h hw/arm_boot.c

2007-07-27 Thread Andrzej Zaborowski
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Andrzej Zaborowski 07/07/27 22:08:46 Modified files: . : vl.c vl.h hw : arm_boot.c Log message: Optionally setup old style linux bootparams for -kernel, by Juergen Lock. CV

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Brook
> >> how close is thread safey? > > > > In a useful form: a fair way off. > > > > It's relatively simple to hack something together than runs. Making it > > work correctly and go fast is much harder though. My current prototype > > (running on 2 cores) runs about a quarter the speed of normal qemu,

[Qemu-devel] qemu/hw pxa2xx.c

2007-07-27 Thread Andrzej Zaborowski
CVSROOT:/sources/qemu Module name:qemu Changes by: Andrzej Zaborowski 07/07/27 21:49:15 Modified files: hw : pxa2xx.c Log message: Update TNF bit in I2C status register, original patch by Juergen Lock. CVSWeb URLs: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/vie

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
Thiemo Seufer wrote: A missing libm sounds like a build environment problem. Thiemo Do you have a test for this because I reinstalled the entire system from scratch and have had no problems building lots of packages over the last week except for those applications that assume that all the worl

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: [snip] >> gcc -g -Wl,-T,/root/tmp/qemu-20070727/mipsel.ld -o qemu-i386 main.o >> syscall.o mmap.o signal.o path.o osdep.o thunk.o elfload.o linuxload.o >> vm86.o libqemu.a gdbstub.o -lm -lrt -lasound >> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lm &g

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 27.07.2007 um 16:58 schrieb Sunil Amitkumar Janki: Dan Shearer wrote: I see this as a different class of testing [...], checking out and compiling under different circumstances. That's very valuable, and will help address a problem that drives away a lot of potential QEMU users - they ju

Re: [Qemu-devel] What is the best way to control qemu on a remote box?

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Hanselmann
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:22:08AM -0700, n schembr wrote: > Is system_powerdown a better way to stop the host? Is > system_powerdown a soft operation like the atx powersupply? It did > not work with a smoothwall guest. It would, but is not implemented for x86. I've been working on it using ACP

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Paul Brook wrote: As Qemu cannot use multicore CPUs (partially due to missing thread safety), yet, you won't benefit from this unless you want to run multiple instances of Qemu in parallel. how close is thread safey? In a useful form: a fair way off. It's relatively simple to hack

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Brook
> >As Qemu cannot use multicore CPUs (partially due to missing thread > >safety), yet, you won't benefit from this unless you want to run > >multiple instances of Qemu in parallel. > > how close is thread safey? In a useful form: a fair way off. It's relatively simple to hack something together t

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread n schembr
- Original Message From: Jan Marten Simons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:50:51 PM Subject: Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...) Sunil Amitkumar Janki schrieb: > Dan Shearer wrote: >

[Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Brian Johnson
n schembr wrote: -snap- Personally though I don't see much benefit to simple syntax config files over C files, that are being used now. Config files implies a self check process. A better question might be, has qemu grown to the point where an outsider is going to define a new platform? A

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Jan Marten Simons
Sunil Amitkumar Janki schrieb: Dan Shearer wrote: You do also have the architectures provided to you by QEMU :-) :-) I have been able to build modular Xorg for Armedslack in QEMU without having the hardware but when I tried to port Slackware 12.0 to SPARC in QEMU I found it was way too slow

Re: [Qemu-devel] What is the best way to control qemu on a remote box?

2007-07-27 Thread n schembr
socat - unix-connect:/vservers/qemu/cms1/cms1.sock works well. Ctrl-d stops socat. I'd prefer not to have vnc running unless I needed it,but some of my guests hang when -nographic is used. Note : the guest has X running and the host is running headless. Is system_powerdown a better way to

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 05:50:05PM +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: > >You do also have the architectures provided to you by QEMU :-) :-) > > Maybe in the future where we have all kinds of cheap multicore processors > this will not matter much but for the moment limited res

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
Dan Shearer wrote: You do also have the architectures provided to you by QEMU :-) :-) I have been able to build modular Xorg for Armedslack in QEMU without having the hardware but when I tried to port Slackware 12.0 to SPARC in QEMU I found it was way too slow and started looking for some re

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: using qemu to boot Fedora

2007-07-27 Thread Ed Swierk
On 7/27/07, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if it's supposed to be able to run yaboot, but it doesn't > seem to. I've tried running the netboot images (which are just a zImage > containing kernel+initrd) and I think I had problems with that too -- > but at least that was a

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 04:58:19PM +0200, Sunil Amitkumar Janki wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: > > > >I see this as a different class of testing to the tinderbox-style > >testing Natalia Portillo was talking about, checking out and compiling > >under different circumstances. That's very valuable, and

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Sunil Amitkumar Janki
kware 12.0 on MIPS for the last few months and would like to run QEMU on that architecture. previously it built but didn't run, but now it doesn't even compile anymore. The error message I get is the following: gcc -O2 -march=r4600 -Wall -O2 -g -fno-strict-aliasing -I. -I.. -I/root/t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Linux KDE vs. Windows

2007-07-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andreas Färber wrote: > > Am 24.07.2007 um 15:32 schrieb Clemens Kolbitsch: > >> i'm emulating i386 (what else when using windows *g*) [...] >> >> just in case someone knows :-) > > As far as I recall, in chronological order: alpha, ia64, amd64. ;-) > mips, alpha, ia64, amd64. -hpa

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 09:29:11AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > FYI, I've started building a VNC based automated tester. You provide it > a series of screenshots with masks of data that's likely to be That's excellent. I see this as a different class of testing to the tinderbox-style testin

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
FYI, I've started building a VNC based automated tester. You provide it a series of screenshots with masks of data that's likely to be semi-random and it'll wait for each screen shot. It also has the smarts to find where the mouse is so that you can move it to an exact location. I'll have so

Re: QEMU Automated Testing (was [Qemu-devel] qemu Makefile.target vl.h hw/acpi.c hw/adlib.c ...)

2007-07-27 Thread Dan Shearer
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:43:20PM +0100, Natalia Portillo wrote: Whoops, slightly late reply :-) > I have a huge list of operating systems (both closed and open source, that > works and that doesn't work under QEMU) that can be used to check that QEMU > doesn't broke (or even, that it corrects a

[Qemu-devel] Re: using qemu to boot Fedora

2007-07-27 Thread Jesse Keating
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:17:01 +0100 David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure if it's supposed to be able to run yaboot, but it doesn't > seem to. I've tried running the netboot images (which are just a > zImage containing kernel+initrd) and I think I had problems with that > too --

[Qemu-devel] Re: using qemu to boot Fedora

2007-07-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 07:24 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > That would potentially work, I just want to try getting the install > env up and running. What syntax did you use to boot the netboot > image? I don't remember -- I think I may have built a hacked version of OpenHackware which just interp

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Alexander Voropay
"Paul Borman" wrote: Personally, I would have a goal that the definition of a device would be simple enough that there would be no reason to have anything more complicated than a simple text file. Look at the Virtutech Simics emulator. (It's closed source product but free for academic use

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Borman
The platform I started with was ppc_prep :-) So, is Python already part of qemu? Personally, I would have a goal that the definition of a device would be simple enough that there would be no reason to have anything more complicated than a simple text file. While I would not suggest that t

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Paul Borman
The embedded space contains a vast number of boards, often only different by what devices are use, where they are located, etc. Building a new version of qemu for each board would be burdensome. The hope would be that we could build a generic qemu (for an architecture family), say, ppc_ge

[Qemu-devel] Re: using qemu to boot Fedora

2007-07-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 19:47 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > So I'd really really like to be able to use qemu to test my just > composed PPC trees. Alas I can't seem to find the magic key combos to > make this happen. Have any of you had any luck doing this? There > seems to be scarce documentation

[Qemu-devel] Re: QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

2007-07-27 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:00:31 +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > There is some interesting work being done on a similar project by Paul > Sokolovsky for his and Maria Zabolotnaya's Google Summer Of Project. > In their approach machine descriptions (but not only) are written in > python, which let