[Milkymist-devel] Milkymist software task list

[Richard Sharpe]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:01 AM, Sébastien Bourdeauducq
<sebastien.bourdeauducq at lekernel.net> wrote:
> 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/

OK, progress ... without the -S -s I get this:

udhcpc (v1.16.0) started
Setting IP address 0.0.0.0 on eth0
Sending discover...
No lease, failing
starting pid 26, tty '': '/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100'

milkymist_ml401 login: root

Welcome to the Milkymist Linux


     |\  /|'||      |\  /|'   |
     | \/ ||||_/\  /| \/ ||(~~|~
     |    |||| \ \/ |    ||_) |
                _/

http://www.milkymist.org/

Jan  1 00:00:10 login[26]: root login on 'ttyS0'


BusyBox v1.16.0 (2010-02-24 23:49:27 JST) hush - the humble shell
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

root:~# df
Filesystem           1024-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                 7931      1339      6592  17% /
root:~#
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Now, to set up the tool chain I downloaded, although I would like to
rebuild that at some stage and then to start looking at the modules
problem.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe