Subject: Re: mips emulator: Anyone using gxemul?
To: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 07/13/2005 06:26:45
On 7/13/05, Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

Yeah, I'm finding that it's pretty slow on my amd64 box here.

Looks like I'll stick to mipsel builds on my cobalt box.

It's fun anyway though.=20

Andy