Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/22] target/openrisc updates

[Richard Henderson]

On 02/10/2017 11:39 AM, Stafford Horne wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:10:51AM -0500, G 3 wrote:
> > On Feb 8, 2017, at 11:52 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> >
> > > Message: 6
> > > Date: Wed,  8 Feb 2017 20:51:32 -0800
> > > From: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
> > > To: address@hidden
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/22] target/openrisc updates
> > > Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > The bulk of this patch set is 2-3 years old, and was mostly
> > > reviewed by Bastian Koppelmann.  But it languished because
> > > there were reports of it not booting kernel images, and I
> > > had problems putting together a set of tools that could even
> > > build a kernel.
> > >
> > > The OpenRISC community has picked up activity recently,
> > > with Stafford Horne upstreaming some of the compiler tools.
> > > He has even done some testing for me of this patch set.
> > >
> > >
> > > r~
> >
> > I see you are working on OpenRISC. Would you be able to help
> > me improve its wiki page?
> >
> > http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Documentation/Platforms/OpenRISC
> >
> > Right now there isn't much information on OpenRISC here. I'm
> > hoping to make it a lot useful to anyone who is interesting in this
> > platform.
> >
> > Would you know of any links to software that works in OpenRISC?
> >
> > Pictures of the OpenRISC target running anything would be great also.
> >
> > What is your suggested command-line for using OpenRISC?
> >
> > If you have any suggestions on how to improve the page place don't
> > hesitate to let me know.
>
> Hi Richard, G 3,
>
> I am not sure if Richard has the time for this.  But I kind of got him
> started back on the openrisc work, it would be my fault to burden him
> with even more work :).  Also, I was helping to do some tests so I have
> some example commands.

:-)

> I don't have a lot of time, but I think I can help to update the above.
> Probably Richard and I could work together?
>
> I was recently working on updating the openrisc page
>
>   http://openrisc.io
>
> I think I could link between the two for toolchain compile guides and
> software guides (i.e. debugging and linux).
>
> Richard what do you think?

Probably the most beneficial thing that we can do is create a kernel+initrd 
that boots into a busybox root shell.  Similar to the other test images that we 
have at

  http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Testing/System_Images


r~