Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports
On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 09:08 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 04:28:45PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:13 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > > Given that, it seems like a good time to add arm64 to src:linux with a
> > > > configuration that will run on at least a typical QEMU ARM64 emulation.
> > >
> > > AIUI qemu 2.0 only does qemu-aarch64-user, with the system emulation
> > > portion slated to be merged shortly[0].
> >
> > Not sure if it works, but qemu-system-aarch64 is in the 2.0 packages in sid:
> >
> > https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=sid&searchon=contents&keywords=qemu-system-aarch64
>
> $ qemu-system-aarch64
> No machine specified, and there is no default.
> Use -machine help to list supported machines!
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -machine ?
> [... a long list of 32-bit arm <= v7 machines, AFAICT ...]
>
> I've not actually tried it, but it doesn't look likely to work.
Yeah - at this point qemu-system is only usable for KVM accelerated VMs on
said mythical hardware. Only broadly available test platform for a
kernel would be the ARM fast model.
Some instructions for generating a bootable image for that are here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM64/FoundationModel
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