Re: porting reversible on arm/mips

[paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>]

Do I need to cross compile the kernel for arm?
or I can get readily arm linux to be deployed directly on qemu or skyeye ?


----- Original Message ----
From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
To: paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>; "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 7:45:11 AM
Subject: Re: porting reversible on arm/mips

For the sim, maybe you can try the qemu or skyeye.

Thanks,
Hui

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:10, paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com> wrote:
> My target may be arm/mips.
> but some of the common hurdles are following.
>
> 1) getting virtual machine which has capability gives me arm processor
>
> 2) getting the arm linux ISO.
>
> Can somebody give me some pointers regarding above ?
>
> Regards,.
> Oza.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
> To: paawan oza <paawan1982@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>; "gdb@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>
> Sent: Fri, December 11, 2009 5:28:40 AM
> Subject: Re: porting reversible on arm/mips
>
> paawan oza wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> there are pending tasks as mentioned in
>> http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ReverseDebug
>>
>> I would like take one of the archs and port reversible on it.
>>
>> If I correctly understand the task.
>>
>> ->  mips/arm architecture involves, complete writing to arm/mips instruction set and parsing of the same.
>>
>> -> I assume that there is no basic framework done for mips/arm, such as function call recording, instruction parsing etc, everything has to be written from beginning.
>>
>> Let me know If my understanding is correct of the current state of code.
>
> I think Hui has already done some work for Mips record/replay.
> Maybe you and he could work together on that?
>
> If you want to work on Arm, as far as I know, you would have
> that field all to yourself.
>
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