Introduction to the superpages support for ARMv6/v7

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

Yes, I'm much more interested in a software CPU emulator for various ARM
platforms.

Are there any ARM emulators (eg qemu) that can start booting FreeBSD ARM -
but then fail, because we're missing disk/console/net/etc support?

Basically - I'd like to finish off the ARM/MIPS/PPC/Sparc emulation
environment support for FreeBSD so people like Alan, Jeff and others who
hack on things like the VM and memory allocation framework have a chance of
testing on these platforms before they commit stuff that may break them.:)



-adrian



On 21 August 2013 16:43, Zbigniew Bodek <zbb at semihalf.com> wrote:

> 2013/8/21 Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I like your ARM work very much. Is there any emulator that we can spin up
>> to actually test this stuff out?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -adrian
>>
>> Hello Adrian,
>
> Thank you.
>
> If you are referring to some soft that emulates ARMv7 (instead of using HW
> platform), then there is none that
> I know about which allows to run FreeBSD in multiuser. Or I misunderstood
> your question?
>
> Regarding HW platforms, then all ARMv6/v7-based devices supported by
> FreeBSD should be able to take advantage
> of superpages.
>
> Best regards
> Zbyszek Bodek
>