On Friday 26 January 2007 08:40, Denis Kot wrote: > No, I don't need hardware emulator. I need "interface emulator" :). > Where I can play with phone's interface and maybe onboard software w/o > buying the phone. It's ok if it will be compiled for i386 or whatever.
You can use QEMU : it will provide a complete ARM virtual machine, and can emulate different system types (integrator/versatile). In system mode emulation QEMU is very handy because it provides a fb device, hard disk, ethernet, mouse, keyboard, etc. The hardware is different but in order to develop and test softwares with no special hardware interface, QEMU is very convenient. It will run slowly that native x86 code of course, but it will be nearest from the target platform. You can use the same filesystem that the one you will put on your phone, for example using a NFS root. So testing is really efficient : compile, then run, and put the binary on the target if the result is ok. By default QEMU provides 926 and 1026 emulation, not 920, but it is easy to patch it (and some config in the kernel) to make it appear as a 920t machine (it is only a hack however). I made some tests this way, it works very well (see http://www.pierrox.net/G500/20070109/qemu-0.8.2-versatile_pb-920t.patch, http://www.pierrox.net/G500/20070109/linux-2.6.18.3-versatile_pb-920t.patch and http://www.pierrox.net/G500/20070109/config-2.6.18.3-versatile_pb-920t for patches, remember : just a hack). You can use QEMU to run the familiar images for example (with some tweaking in init scripts), or install debian, or build your own system. Pierre. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
