Re: qemu-friendly flavour of the ARM kernel

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

Wookey a écrit :
> On 2006-12-13 14:04 +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote:
>>    Hi there.
>>
>>    As of now, no official ARM flavour can run in qemu, which prevents
>> us from using what could be an extremely cheap and easy to deploy
>> development platform. Qemu however supports the versatile platform, and
>> adding a kernel for it to the archive is just, as far as I understand, a
>> matter of uncommenting that flavour. Is it too late for that?
> 
> Almost certainly for etch, I suspect. 
> 
> Good idea though. I suggest modifying the kernel package and checking
> it builds and works with QEMU, then file a patch. 

I am building such a kernel for some time [1], and even if my last build
is a bit outdated compared to the version in unstable, I can say it
works correctly with QEMU.

The patch is actually trivial (see attached file), as everything is
already in the package.

Aurelien

[1] http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/arm-versatile/

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diff -u linux-2.6-2.6.18/debian/arch/arm/defines linux-2.6-2.6.18/debian/arch/arm/defines
--- linux-2.6-2.6.18/debian/arch/arm/defines
+++ linux-2.6-2.6.18/debian/arch/arm/defines
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
  ixp4xx
  rpc
  s3c2410
+ versatile
 kernel-arch: arm
 kernel-header-dirs: arm