[Milkymist-devel] Milkymist software task list

[Sébastien Bourdeauducq]

On Monday 01 March 2010 05:29:25 Richard Sharpe wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Takeshi MATSUYA <macchan at sfc.wide.ad.jp> 
wrote:
> > [tmatsuya at tmatsuya-pc tmp]$ qemu-system-lm32 -M milkymist -nographic -s
> > -S -kernel vmlinux -initrd initrd.bin -append "root=/dev/ram"
> 
> Thanks for that. Is the root file system in the initrd.bin such that
> it never pivots to an external root file system?

Yes.
I've also been successful at using NFS as root filesystem (on the board, AFAIK 
there is no simulation model for Ethernet in QEMU); there are some problems 
but because of the crappy Ethernet driver and/or MAC core. I am designing a 
new one at the moment:
http://github.com/lekernel/milkymist/tree/master/cores/minimac/

Sébastien