Re: buliding and testing PowerPC KVM

Jerone Young
2008-03-25T18:21:50Z

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
<fill me> 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.
>