[Qemu-devel] Linux 3.10 test images for arm, mips, powerpc, sparc, sh4...

[Rob Landley]

Prebulit binaries of all of the above are at:

  http://landley.net/aboriginal/bin

The "system-image" tarballs are bootable system images, tested under  
qemu 1.5.1, which provide a shell prompt on qemu's stdin/stdout and a  
native compiler capable of building Linux From Scratch inside the  
emulator. Each contains three wrapper scripts:

  1) run-emulator.sh - boot qemu to a shell prompt.
  2) dev-environment.sh - development environment (allocate extra  
memory/storage).
  3) native-build.sh - see http://landley.net/aboriginal/control-images

The "cross-compiler" tarballs are cross compilers, extract anywhere and  
add the "bin" subdirectory to your $PATH, then use ${PREFIX}-cc as your  
compiler. If this cross compiler is in your path and distccd is  
isntalled on the host, the dev-environment.sh script will configure  
qemu to call out to the cross compiler via loopback.

If you'd like to build these images yourself from source, grab the  
tarball from:

  http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/aboriginal-1.2.4.1.tar.bz2

And type "./build.sh armv5l" or similar. (Run it with no arguments to  
see a target list.)

More documentation than anyone is likely to read is available at:

  http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html

Rob

(Sorry for the noise, but I spent _effort_ making this work with qemu  
1.5.1. Almost just put "use 1.2.0" in the release notes, but eventually  
got fixes for arm, sparc, and sh4 _without_ sacrificing backwards  
compatability with the old releases.)