> In particular, right now I'm at the point where I can boot but get bogged > down in all the extraneous inittab boot stuff; even cutting back to > single-user mode doesn't help noticeably. There are several options I could > pursue including cutting down inittab, changing the default runlevel, and/or > whacking links out of various /etc/runlevel/* directories, and I'm guessing > the eventual answer involves all of the above, but rather than spending time > playing around with this I'd rather collect what other people have done and > then build on your experiences. Don't use init at all. Use a kernel command line option (boot_osflags) to change init to your own shell script. Something like "init=/m5/bin/init.sh". Also, if we're going to create a new tarball to share, I'd like to suggest that we work on getting my new m5ops into the tree. They extend /bin/m5 to have a readfile command that takes a parameter, so you can read different files. Those files are just python objects, and the objects can actually be any python file object, so you can wrap strings in your config file and such.
I can send you my patches if you'd like to check it out. > Similarly, let me know anything else you've done in terms of getting a > gentoo stage 3 image up and usable. I actually stole my stuff from an install of gentoo, but that's not strictly necessary. The install helped because I was able to emerge a few packages that aren't in the stage3 tarball. I do believe that we should be able to figure out a crosscompile solution for this. Alternatively, I do have an alpha up at HP that's outside the firewall that you can use. > Finally, one more question: is there any situation in which we recommend > using linux-dist? If not, then I'll add that information to the wiki as > well. I think we want to deprecate linux-dist and move everyone to gentoo. I'm willing to help build a new image, but I don't want to do it alone. I've hesitated before, because I'd like to move *everything* to the new image, tests, documentation, etc. Nate _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
