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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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