Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-09-06 Thread Cédric VINCENT
Hello, For information, QEMU user-mode doesn't require any "guest" kernel since all privileged operations are redirected to the "host" one. Moreover the user-mode is a lot faster than the system-mode since there's no device emulation at all [0]. Let me demonstrate how you can use your favorite di

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-09-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 6 September 2012 09:25, Cédric VINCENT wrote: > > For information, QEMU user-mode doesn't require any "guest" kernel > since all privileged operations are redirected to the "host" one. You assume that everybody uses Linux on PC as a host. If you use Windows for example you need full system emu

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-09-06 Thread Davide
>> For information, QEMU user-mode doesn't require any "guest" kernel >> since all privileged operations are redirected to the "host" one. >You assume that everybody uses Linux on PC as a host. If you use >Windows for example you need full system emulation. I just could not resist ... this is j

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-09-06 Thread John O'Donnell
On 09/06/2012 06:04 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 6 September 2012 09:25, Cédric VINCENT wrote: For information, QEMU user-mode doesn't require any "guest" kernel since all privileged operations are redirected to the "host" one. You assume that everybody uses Linux on PC as a host. If you use

Re: [ARMedslack] QEMU support - does anybody care about it?

2012-09-06 Thread Ottavio Caruso
On 6 September 2012 17:20, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 09/06/2012 06:04 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: >> >> On 6 September 2012 09:25, Cédric VINCENT >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> For information, QEMU user-mode doesn't require any "guest" kernel >>> since all privileged operations are redirected to the "host

[ARMedslack] F-ed up my SD card

2012-09-06 Thread Mr. B-o-B
Hello, and a good day to you all. I am new to this list & ARMedSlack (not new to Slackware though). I recently received a Raspberry PI, and did a -current install per the instructions listed here: http://www.daves-collective.co.uk/raspi/installing.shtml All went well, but when I issued the "

Re: [ARMedslack] F-ed up my SD card

2012-09-06 Thread Rick Miles
A few things to consider, there is nothing wrong with any of Dave's packages but perhaps you had a corrupt download. After your install are you sure you had the first (vfat) partition mounted as /mnt/boot and installed the raspberrypi packages as per the instructions? What is in the first partitio