Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/22] target/openrisc updates

[Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:25 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On 02/10/2017 11:39 AM, Stafford Horne wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:10:51AM -0500, G 3 wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 11:52 PM, qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Message: 6
>>>> Date: Wed,  8 Feb 2017 20:51:32 -0800
>>>> From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
>>>> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
>>>> Cc: shorne@gmail.com
>>>> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/22] target/openrisc updates
>>>> Message-ID: <20170209045154.16868-1-rth@twiddle.net>
>>>> 
>>>> The bulk of this patch set is 2-3 years old, and was mostly
>>>> reviewed by Bastian Koppelmann.  But it languished because
>>>> there were reports of it not booting kernel images, and I
>>>> had problems putting together a set of tools that could even
>>>> build a kernel.
>>>> 
>>>> The OpenRISC community has picked up activity recently,
>>>> with Stafford Horne upstreaming some of the compiler tools.
>>>> He has even done some testing for me of this patch set.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> r~
>>> 
>>> I see you are working on OpenRISC. Would you be able to help
>>> me improve its wiki page?
>>> 
>>> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Documentation/Platforms/OpenRISC
>>> 
>>> Right now there isn't much information on OpenRISC here. I'm
>>> hoping to make it a lot useful to anyone who is interesting in this
>>> platform.
>>> 
>>> Would you know of any links to software that works in OpenRISC?
>>> 
>>> Pictures of the OpenRISC target running anything would be great also.
>>> 
>>> What is your suggested command-line for using OpenRISC?
>>> 
>>> If you have any suggestions on how to improve the page place don't
>>> hesitate to let me know.
>>> 
>> 
>> Hi Richard, G 3,
>> 
>> I am not sure if Richard has the time for this.  But I kind of got him
>> started back on the openrisc work, it would be my fault to burden him
>> with even more work :).  Also, I was helping to do some tests so I have
>> some example commands.
> 
> :-)
> 
>> I don't have a lot of time, but I think I can help to update the above.
>> Probably Richard and I could work together?
>> 
>> I was recently working on updating the openrisc page
>> 
>>  http://openrisc.io
>> 
>> I think I could link between the two for toolchain compile guides and
>> software guides (i.e. debugging and linux).
>> 
>> Richard what do you think?
> 
> Probably the most beneficial thing that we can do is create a kernel+initrd that boots into a busybox root shell.  Similar to the other test images that we have at
> 
>  http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Testing/System_Images
> 
> 
> r~
> 

We could do both the test image and a wiki page.