scripts for testing barebox in qemu

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Fri Aug 12 03:36:47 EDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:23:36AM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Some times ago I made the scripts for building mips cross-development
> stuff: toolchain, patched qemu, firmware, linux and small rootfs.
> I named the scripts 'clab'.
> 
> Today this scripts work not only for mips, but for arm, pc and
> sparc32 too.
> 
> (Yes, yes, I know about the existing projects of such type.
> I'm planning to migrate to buildroot in the future.)
> 
> Also clab has a script for running qemu in convenient way.
> 
> In this letter I want propose this scripts for very easy testing
> of barebox on MIPS Malta (with initial PCI support) and
> on ARM Versatile.

Maybe you can add this information to the wiki. You need an account
for this which I can create for you (and everyone else who is
interested).

Sascha



> 
> A small instruction:
> 
> 1. clab will install toolchain and qemu to /opt/clab, so prepare it
> 
> sudo mkdir /opt/clab
> sudo chown $USER /opt/clab
> 
> 2. get and unpack clab
> 
> wget http://prizma.bmstu.ru/~antony/barebox/clab-0.34.tar.gz
> tar vfx clab-0.34.tar.gz
> cd clab-0.34
> 
> 3. build toolchain, qemu, firmware, linux & rootfs
> 
> ./mk_src_dir.sh
> ./build-all.sh
> 
> If you don't want build linux & rootfs you can disable
> options --build_linux and --build-rootfs.
> 
> Clab will put all compiled stuff in the directory 'out'.
> 
> 4. start barebox
> 
> ./start-qemu.sh qemu-configs/versatile-linux-gnueabi/barebox-no-network-stdio
> 
> ./start-qemu.sh qemu-configs/malta-linux-gnu/barebox-no-network-stdio
> 
> Also you can run linux:
> 
> ./start-qemu.sh qemu-configs/versatile-linux-gnueabi/stdio-no-network
> 
> ./start-qemu.sh qemu-configs/malta-linux-gnu/stdio-no-network
> 
> 5. starting barebox with network support need root
> permissions to setup tap network interface.
> 
> So to try barebox with Realtek 8139 on PCI bus run this:
> 
> sudo ./start-qemu.sh qemu-configs/versatile-linux-gnueabi/barebox-stdio
> 
> -- 
> Best regards,
>   Antony Pavlov
> 
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