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Date:      Sat, 21 Nov 1998 12:57:46 +0900 (JST)
From:      Nobuhiro Kurihara <kurihara@rindou.Japan.Sun.COM>
To:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Emulators, and Simulators
Message-ID:  <199811210357.MAA00996@uganju.Japan.Sun.COM>

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Some people use SPARC simulator on SPARC. But I don't think it
can be used without appropriate licensing. (And it should cost)


> Ok, nice links boys, but if you have a good internet connection and you can 
> surf on the web, can you look for Emulators and Simulators of Sparc 
> CPU/Plattform on other platforms (Intel?)?
> 
> How will this help us? I think we can simulate many thing, and maybe we can 
> develop faster the kernel. The main problem, when you develop Kernel is that 
> teorically you should use 2 Sparc, one for booting and using the kernel and the 
> second one to monitor the firt one.
> 
> If we have the Emulators/Simulators we can speed up this process....
> 
> Another idea: someone ad Sun can tell us if they use two machine to develop 
> kernel, and how to do this? 
> Can we use an Intel box to monitor via the OBP and a serial port? Can we do the 
> memory dump of a "dead" UltraSparc when it does not boot correctly?
> How to implement a mechanism which dump the memory "somewhere" when we have a 
> kernel panic?

Basically, through OBP you can access memory and registers.


nob
 

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