Looking for shell access for (minimal) LLDB testing

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2021-02-04 at 07:24 -0600, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 2/3/21 1:31 PM, 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.
> > 
> > - Justin
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> I had some trouble with FreeBSD under qemu a while back and the solution 
> was to specify am older cpu architecture, namely
> pseries-2.5:

That's nice to know.  I've tried different CPU brands but it didn't
occur to me to try an older one.  This would be nice to have
on the wiki.  However, I don't think I can edit it.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny