On 24.05.2018 19:43, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > What is the quickest and easiest NetBSD to install that is 32 bit and > big endian using an emulator? I need a working network in the virtual > system too or an easy way to copy files to its virtual disk. > > For example, I fetched kernel and iso and tried: > > $ qemu-system-mips -hda netbsd.evbmips.disk -kernel netbsd-INSTALL_MALTA -cdrom NetBSD-8.0_RC1-evbmips-mipseb.iso -nographic > MIPS32/64 params: cpu arch: 128 > MIPS32/64 params: TLB entries: 16 > MIPS32/64 params: Icache: line=16, total=2048, ways=2, sets=64, colors=0 > MIPS32/64 params: Dcache: line=16, total=2048, ways=2, sets=64, colors=0 > cpu_arch 0x80: not supported > > And it just hangs there using 99% cpu on a Linux host. I cannot find > installation docs for that example. > > I have okay experience with qemu with i386 but want to try others. I > have also used simh-vax (but wrong endian) and tme with sun4 (not sure > if was 32 bit). > > Any advice or pointers would be appreciated. > With MALTA we need either special bootloader or hardcoded initialization of the devices in the kernel for the purpose of emulation. Linux does the latter. On the other hand MALTA should work with gxemul.
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