Looking for shell access for (minimal) LLDB testing
Michał Górny
mgorny at gentoo.org
Sun Feb 7 18:32:39 UTC 2021
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 13:31 -0600, Justin Hibbits wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 13:16:38 +0100
> Michał Górny <mgorny at gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm working on modernizing LLDB's FreeBSD support. As a part of that,
> > I have to port all architecture-specific code to a new process plugin
> > architecture, and I'd prefer to test that my code actually works ;-).
> >
> > Sadly, FWICS FreeBSD doesn't work under qemu-system-ppc [1], and my
> > attempts seem to confirm that. For this reason I'd like to ask --
> > would someone be able to grant me user-privilege shell access to a
> > machine (or VM) running 32-bit FreeBSD on PowerPC for a few days?
> >
> > I probably won't need root access, though rsync(1) installed would be
> > helpful. I'm going to need around 1G of disk space but I can try to
> > squeeze in less than that if necessary. All builds are done on my
> > home machine via a cross-compiler, so I won't be using much CPU or
> > memory, just some network bandwidth to transfer the data.
> >
> > TIA for your help.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/QemuRecipes#powerpc
> >
>
> Hi Michał,
>
> I don't have a 32-bit powerpc system available for you to use, but you
> should be able to run lldb just fine on the FreeBSD powerpc64 Qemu
> recipe. Do you need a 32-bit kernel, or just 32-bit userland?
>
> If you need a 32-bit kernel, I have successfully run FreeBSD on a
> Book-E qemu, so if you can build a MPC85XX kernel, you can run in that.
Thank you for your offer but I've gotten native access already.
--
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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