Hi everyone, I am interested in helping develop X86_FS boot up and testing. Under X86_FS, I have been able to boot a couple different versions of the Linux kernel (v2.6.22.9 and v2.6.28.4), but the bring up requires more than 12 hours of simulation time. I am hoping to reduce the boot time to make it more usable. I recall that the M5 patches for alpha-linux play some tricks to speed bootup, so I tried building an x86 kernel v2.6.27 with the patches. It looks like many of the patches are specific to ALPHA, so (maybe unsurprisingly) I encountered errors quickly in the build. I am wondering if anyone is currently working on this, or if I could get some pointers on where to dig in. Thank you, Joel
-- Joel Hestness PhD Student, Computer Architecture Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas - Austin http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hestness
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