[Freedombox-discuss] Dreamplug emulator or qemu?

[Björn Påhlsson]

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On 02/26/2012 10:45 PM, Nick M. Daly wrote:

>> Alas, the code I want to test is done in C (Mandos client), and
>> as a developer I had my share of issues from the differences in
>> what GCC flags different architectures support.
> 
> QEMU sounds like the better option in your case.  Look into 
> QEmulator/VirtualBricks for a nice frontend.
[...]
>> This is one of my concerns I wanted to remove by testing. I do
>> not know if UBoot boots an initramfs like Debian does on a normal
>> PC.

A quick look seems to confirm that it does indeed boot an initramfs.
So that should make everything much easier.

[...]
> Qemu emulates the processor, not the DreamPlug-specific hardware
> (AFAIK, maybe there's a way to do that).  [...]

Do you (or anyone) know a way for qemu-system-arm to boot a
FreedomMaker image?  We tried a few different ways, but nothing seemed
to happen.

> But yes, if you could post source somewhere, I'd give it a shot
> (there are also other folks on this list who have plugs), if you
> give me 3 days to a week of turn-around time.  I won't test
> binary-blobs though.

Our package "Mandos" is actually in Debian.  The hard part is to
generate a FreedomBox installation with an encrypted root filesystem
to test it on.

/Björn Påhlsson
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