Re: NetBSD/alpha on qemu-system-alpha
Jonathan Sturges <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Fantastic news! :-D > On Sep 28, 2020, at 7:42 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Feb 25, 2020, at 10:47 PM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Recently I've been trying to get NetBSD/alpha running under qemu-system-alpha. So far I've fixed a few bugs in Qemu's Alpha emulation: > > THREAD BUMP. > > I got motivated again over the weekend to hack on this a little more (baking and retro-computing are great COVID-19 lockdown hobbies). > > I fixed a couple more bugs in the Qemu PALcode, and changed NetBSD/alpha to take advantage of some Qemu virtual machine services (mainly around timekeeping), and I'm happy to report that I now have a NetBSD/alpha setup running inside Qemu well enough to run the NetBSD regression test suite. > > With a few more improvements, we should be able to get an emulated NetBSD/alpha system into the regular automated test suite runs that releng@netbsd does for several platforms in emulators already. At least, that's my goal! > > I have a busy week this week, but more to come later! > > -- thorpej >