From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerone Young Subject: Re: buliding and testing PowerPC KVM Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:50 -0500 Message-ID: <1206469310.31609.3.camel@thinkpadL> References: <1206030270.6690.51.camel@cotte.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <47E395C9.6050201@qumranet.com> <1206128640.3136.31.camel@basalt> <47E92ED2.8030909@qumranet.com> Reply-To: jyoung5@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-ppc-devel , EHRHARDT@de.ibm.com, Hollis Blanchard , arnd@arndb.de, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, jeroney@us.ibm.com To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47E92ED2.8030909@qumranet.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org So it's actually really easy using cross compiler to build everything. I use my laptop and then copy over to our nfs root that our boards use. Here are some instructions I wrote up for someone earlier. Excuse the parts but it is enough to get you going: On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 18:56 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Hollis Blanchard wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 13:02 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > >> Other than that, and the few minor comments that popped up, this > >> (very > >> nice) patchset will be very easy to merge. IIRC you mentioned it is > >> possible for me to get an s390 account; this will be very useful in > >> avoiding breaking this port, as happens quite often with ppc and > >> ia64. > >> I'd like to be able to do both build and run testing. > >> > > > > As for building the PowerPC code, cross-compiling is easy with > > http://kegel.com/crosstool . There are also a number of servers offering > > remote PowerPC ssh access: see http://penguinppc.org/dev/#remote . > > > > > > I now have a ppc account. Once you point me at the ppc kernel repo I > can start build testing. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/