RE: Software Emulator

2007-02-19 Thread michael
On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Dean Collins wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koen Kooi Sent: Saturday, 17 February 2007 11:37 AM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Cc: OpenMoko Developers Mailing List Subject: Re: Software

Re: Debug board uses (was Re: Software Emulator)

2007-02-17 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Koen Kooi wrote: >> A little OT, but under what circumstances would a developer require a >> debug board? > A debug board would have 2 main uses for me: > 1) a serial console so you can debug problems with X or initscripts > 2) access to jtag so you fix the bootloader if something went wrong with u

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Michael Welter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A little OT, but under what circumstances would a developer require a > debug board? A debug board lets you do things like running gdb on the remote kernel, which is invaluable if things are really really screwed up. If you turn your phone into a brick

Debug board uses (was Re: Software Emulator)

2007-02-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Welter schreef: > A little OT, but under what circumstances would a developer require a > debug board? A debug board would have 2 main uses for me: 1) a serial console so you can debug problems with X or initscripts 2) access to jtag so you f

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Sean Moss-Pultz
On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 10:51 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 13:52 -0300, jeff wrote: > > Well, I'm not Sean, but here's what I've been able to scrape up. It > seems you > > can go a couple routes: qemu or xoo. I do not think that qemu can > handle the > > MACHINE="fic-gta01". Bu

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Welter
A little OT, but under what circumstances would a software developer require the debug board? Is it for hardware debugging only? ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Michael Welter
A little OT, but under what circumstances would a developer require a debug board? Koen Kooi wrote: What do you want to emulate? If it's the cpu, qemu can do that, but not 100%, so you still need a real arm920t device to test on. If it's the screen, you don't have a 300dpi screen on your de

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perry E. Metzger schreef: > Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Please don't stare yourself blind on an 'emulator', since your >> desktop already emulates 90% of the openmoko tech. > > I think that, generally speaking, a lot of people who do this

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Koen Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't stare yourself blind on an 'emulator', since your > desktop already emulates 90% of the openmoko tech. I think that, generally speaking, a lot of people who do this sort of work prefer working on exact hardware emulators if they can. The existe

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Richi Plana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess what I'm trying to ask here is that IF qemu can be made to > emulate the Neo1973, THEN what must be done to do so QEMU is pretty easily extended to simulate additional virtual devices. I think it should be straightforward (though not quick) to mak

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richi Plana schreef: > On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 17:36 +0100, Koen Kooi wrote: >>> Seems one of the more common sentiments around here (myself included). I >>> was wondering if we could get a statement from Sean et al. on where a

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Collins schreef: > Koen, > You think you're so right about architecture and software development > that you are writing code when less than 3 weeks ago an email was sent > to the entire list stating that there had been some hardware > changes.

RE: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Dean Collins
o:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koen Kooi > Sent: Saturday, 17 February 2007 11:55 AM > Cc: community@lists.openmoko.org; OpenMoko Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: Software Emulator > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dean Collin

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Collins schreef: > Yeh right, personally after my experiences with development on the > Savaje OS last year anyone coding without a 100 authentic emulator is > wasting their time. Right, Savaje doesn't reuse desktop technology (java doesn't coun

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread jeff
he PC side, similar to the palm desktop. Seems one of the more common sentiments around here (myself included). I was wondering if we could get a statement from Sean et al. on where a software emulator is in their priority list or even if it is in the queue of things they're developing i

RE: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Dean Collins
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koen Kooi > Sent: Saturday, 17 February 2007 11:37 AM > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Cc: OpenMoko Developers Mailing List > Subject: Re: Software Emulator >

Re: Software Emulator

2007-02-17 Thread Koen Kooi
get gps signals. >> >> Besides the emulator, I'd like to see a nice contacts and calendar app >> on the PC side, similar to the palm desktop. > > Seems one of the more common sentiments around here (myself included). I > was wondering if we could get a statement f