Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/18/2013 08:57:08 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: good to know. I was working back in 2005-2006 with a company that had a 4MB kernel. At that time I was too inexperienced to work at that level but I thought now I could reproduce their work with some help. Anyhow for the moment I'll go for 256 MB

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-18 Thread Herbei Dacian
Rob Landley To: Herbei Dacian Cc: Peter Maydell ; QEmu Devel Sent: Sunday, 18 August 2013, 8:00 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu On 08/16/2013 11:17:06 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: > my system should run in far less memory. something like 2-4MB. > but first I

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-17 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/16/2013 11:17:06 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: my system should run in far less memory. something like 2-4MB. but first I need to have a system running so that I can monitor with qemu the addresses accessed for read execute and write by the code run by the emulator. if I reach that is a rea

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-16 Thread Andreas Färber
t 2013, 18:05 > *Subject:* Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu > > On 08/15/2013 09:01:19 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: >> >> yes but which binary do I use to call to run an emulated arm image? >> >> is there an actual binary that can emulate an existing a

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/15/2013 09:18:48 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: but you said that "qemu-system-arm" is not maintained and it doesn't work. Who said that? git log --pretty=format:"%h %ci %s" hw/arm be2f78b 2013-08-05 11:46:58 -0500 pxa2xx: Avoid object_get_link_property() asser cfc6b24 2013-07-29 21:06:2

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-16 Thread Herbei Dacian
From: Rob Landley To: Herbei Dacian Cc: Peter Maydell ; QEmu Devel Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 18:05 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu On 08/15/2013 09:01:19 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: > > yes but which binary do I use to call to run an emulated arm

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-16 Thread Herbei Dacian
Thanks Rob I think that should do it for me. From: Rob Landley To: Andreas Färber Cc: Herbei Dacian ; QEmu Devel Sent: Friday, 16 August 2013, 17:59 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu On 08/15/2013 06:53:30 AM, Andreas

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/15/2013 09:01:19 AM, Herbei Dacian wrote: yes but which binary do I use to call to run an emulated arm image? is there an actual binary that can emulate an existing arm board, anyboard? qemu? if not which is the emulator that works with arm? If not where is the project that I can tweak

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/15/2013 06:53:30 AM, Andreas Färber wrote: Hi, Am 15.08.2013 10:57, schrieb Herbei Dacian: > > please, can anyone recommend me a distribution that offers a barebone > linux kernel. > minimum that I need on that image are: > _ the kernel > _ the compiler and development infrastructure to

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Maydell
On 15 August 2013 15:18, Herbei Dacian wrote: > but you said that "qemu-system-arm" is not maintained and it doesn't work. No, I said that the arguments you were giving it were requesting a model of an obsolete board, and you should ask it to emulate a different board. -- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Herbei Dacian
Herbei Dacian Cc: QEmu Devel Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2013, 16:05 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu On 15 August 2013 15:01, Herbei Dacian wrote: > yes but which binary do I use to call to run an emulated arm image? qemu-system-arm. > is there an actual bin

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Maydell
On 15 August 2013 15:01, Herbei Dacian wrote: > yes but which binary do I use to call to run an emulated arm image? qemu-system-arm. > is there an actual binary that can emulate an existing arm board, anyboard? "qemu-system-arm -M help" lists the boards we support. http://www.aurel32.net/info/

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Herbei Dacian
t: Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu On 15 August 2013 14:46, Herbei Dacian wrote: > OK but which command should I use if that is broken and where I can find > some documentation that is actually up to date? You need to start by finding out which of the boards QEMU

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Maydell
On 15 August 2013 14:46, Herbei Dacian wrote: > OK but which command should I use if that is broken and where I can find > some documentation that is actually up to date? You need to start by finding out which of the boards QEMU models your distribution actually supports, and the expected install

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Herbei Dacian
OK but which command should I use if that is broken and where I can find some documentation that is actually up to date? From: Peter Maydell To: Herbei Dacian Cc: QEmu Devel Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2013, 15:31 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Peter Maydell
On 15 August 2013 14:22, Herbei Dacian wrote: > > In the end I went for debian cause it is widely used. > > So I'm using the following command to install linux: > qemu-system-arm -m 1024 -hda arm.img -cdrom debian-7.1.0-armel-CD-1.iso > -boot d This command line is totally broken. You're running

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Herbei Dacian
In the end I went for debian cause it is widely used. So I'm using the following command to install linux: qemu-system-arm -m 1024 -hda arm.img -cdrom debian-7.1.0-armel-CD-1.iso -boot d And I get this error: Kernel image must be specified In the documentation is mentioned that i don't need a b

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 09:57:09AM +0100, Herbei Dacian wrote: > please, can anyone recommend me a distribution that offers a barebone linux > kernel. > minimum that I need on that image are: > _ the kernel > _ the compiler and development infrastructure to build it If you want something small an

Re: [Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Andreas Färber
Hi, Am 15.08.2013 10:57, schrieb Herbei Dacian: > > please, can anyone recommend me a distribution that offers a barebone > linux kernel. > minimum that I need on that image are: > _ the kernel > _ the compiler and development infrastructure to build it Aboriginal Linux. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX

[Qemu-devel] minimal linux distribution for qemu

2013-08-15 Thread Herbei Dacian
hi, please, can anyone recommend me a distribution that offers a barebone linux kernel. minimum that I need on that image are: _ the kernel _ the compiler and development infrastructure to build it regards, dacian