Re: Mips-arc tests ever work?

[Glenn Washburn]

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:46:45 +0100
"Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko" <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:

> I have added -M indy in my own branch but never released it

So I understand correctly, you have a -M indy in your branch of Qemu?
If so, is that what we should be using to get the mips-arc target?  Or
what do you recommend for getting the mips-arc tests working with Qemu?

> сб, 5 дек. 2020 г., 13:34 Glenn Washburn
> <development@efficientek.com>:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking into getting grub qemu testing working for the "mis-arc"
> > target. Is anyone running these tests successfully?  In grub-shell
> > that target passed the -M indy arguments to qemu.
> > qemu-system-mips64 is saying that that is an invalid machine type.
> > The available machine types are magnum, malta, mips, mipssim, none,
> > and pica61.  The indy machine type appears to not be available
> > since at least qemu 2.5, perhaps it was dropped some time ago?
> > According to wikipedia the SGI Indy originally used R4k processors.
> >  So would machine type mips be the one to use since its description
> > says "mips r4k platform"?  But then why wouldn't it already use
> > that machine type like the target "mips-qemu_mips"?
> >
> > So can anyone familiar with this tell me an appropriate machine
> > type of the above listed to use instead of indy?  Perhaps Vladimir
> > who committed that code can chime in?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Glenn
> >
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