Re: aranym text console
Wouter,
Under freemint the natfeat (native feature) concept is used to output
console text to the console that the aranym session is running under.
If you look into this in the source code of freemint and aranym, this
may be what you need.
Thanks,
Mark
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 21:01 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Hi Petr,
>
> I talked to Joey Hess, who's set up a d-i testlab to run test installs
> for various Debian architectures, to look into setting up aranym as one
> of the used emulators so that we could have automated m68k test
> installations.
>
> Unfortunately, that isn't going to happen with the current state of
> affairs, since it's impossible to get some sort of text output from the
> console to a program outside of the emulator; I don't see any support
> for serial lines, nor do I see the ability to disable the framebuffer
> (although I imagine that the last problem is merely a restriction of the
> platform).
>
> Would it be possible to add in support for a serial line? Ideally this
> would work similar to qemu's way of doing this, where you can have the
> emulator allocate a PTY to which serial input and output are then
> redirected. If things were arranged this way, the testlab framework
> wouldn't need much extra work for aranym to be used.
>
> Additionally, it would also be nice if the sdl usage could be disabled
> with a simple command line switch, or so. Currently you have to have an
> X server available, which isn't desirable for this type of usage.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Shaw's Principle:
> Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will
> want to use it.
>
>
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