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

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 16.08.2013 18:17, schrieb Herbei Dacian:
> my system should run in far less memory. something like 2-4MB.

I thought either 16MB or 64MB RAM was a lower limit for uCLinux?

If you want to write your own custom firmware then you can go pretty low
of course. For low-end ARM embedded development the two Stellaris
machines (Cortex-M3) might be a good starting point in that case.

Andreas

P.S. Please avoid top-posting and HTML on this mailing list.

> 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 real big deal.
> dacian
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
> *To:* Herbei Dacian <dacian_herbei@yahoo.fr>
> *Cc:* Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>; QEmu Devel
> <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
> *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 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 to build such a binary.
> 
> The arm versatilepb emulation can accept a range of processors (I've 
> tried armv4, armv4t, armv5, armv6, and armv7), provides a PCI bus with 
> a virtual hard drive controller and network card, and can accept 256 
> megs of ram. (In theory it can accept more but I have to get the 
> discontiguous memory stuff to work, haven't done that yet.)
> 
> That's the one I used in Aboriginal Linux arm images.
> 
> Rob
> 


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