Subject: Re: mips emulator: Anyone using gxemul?
To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
From: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 07/13/2005 06:22:10
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:07:11AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> This emulator has some trouble with keyboard input, but maybe that can
> be fixed with some timing changes. And if so, this might be a nice way
> to do mipsel package builds too.

I had to patch NetBSD 2.0 to run reliably on a mobilepro 780.  This
patched version ran find under gxemul emulating a mobilepro 780.  But
the emulator running on a 2.53GHz Pentium4 ran slower than the real MIPS
hardware.  So I abandoned the idea of using it for package builds.

Ben