Hi! I've made considerably progress in making at least most tty apps run in an emulated Ben Nanonote.
(1) For that I took a kernel from http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mipsel/ (2) I made a raw disk of 512 megs, partitioned it and made a Linux partition; under an ARM(!) emulated Linux (it's much easier that way than a looped device); (3) wgetted the openwrt*-rootfs.tar.gz and unpacked it in the mounted partition; (4) cd /mnt/dev; mknod console c 5 1 (5) Booted it as qemu-system-mipsel -m 32 -kernel vmlinux-qemu -hda ben.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 rw console=tty0 init=/bin/sh" (6) cd /etc/; mv inittab inittab.old; mv rcS rcS.old (7) vi rcS; lines "#!/bin/sh<cr>mount -t proc proc /proc (8) sync;sync; mount -f / (9) Made /etc/fstab and populated /dev a bit more (disk, null and tty) (10) Rebooted with: qemu-system-mipsel -m 32 -kernel vmlinux-qemu -hda ben.img -append "root=/dev/sda1 rw console=tty0" (11) BTW, "halt" works at this stage. For that reason it is recommended to fsck after step 8. Image included. I think the adaptation procedure could be wrapped in a script or something - and most likely it could be improved upon. But my knowledge is limited and I would need some help. At least it could help developers who DO NOT want to buy a Nanonote to port their stuff with much more ease - since they can test it in emulation. Hans Bezemer -- Absolutely no trees were killed to produce this sig. Well, OK, we had to tie one up and torture it. That's it. Visit our website! http://thebeez.home.xs4all.nl/4tH/ *** Home of the 4tH compiler! ***
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