You may be able to find some information which will help with running a 
kernel under the simulator at http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ - 
its not the same as what you're doing, but there are some similarities.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi Philip,
> 
> thank your for replying!
> my binary is a statically linked printf("Hello world") application to keep
> it simple.
> when I try to run it, the program seems to hang without any ouput. 
> The only message I get is "unknown SWI encountered - xxxxx - ignored"
> 
> I guess this is exactly what you meant. My program requires a system service
> which is not available under the simulator...
> 
> Hm, running the Linux kernel on the simulator was my intention anyway - but
> I'm not sure if this is possible with the performance of the simulator? Has
> anyone done so yet? Hardware abstraction is an issue, but my intended
> hardware has two serial ports only. I don't know if there are modles
> available for that?
> 
> Regards,
> Thomas.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Blundell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Mittwoch, 16. J�nner 2002 00:24
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: ARM Simulator under GDB 5.1: arm-elf or arm-linux
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 22:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
>>I'm not able to use GDB's ARM Simulator ('target sim' command) when
>>configuring GDB with --target=arm-linux. The simulator is built but
>>seems to be not included with gdb itself. 
>>Configuring with --target=arm-elf works but fails to execute any of my
>>binaries built from arm-linux toolchain.
>>
> 
> What are the binaries that you're trying to run, exactly?
> 
> Programs built for "arm-linux" are normally expecting to execute under
> the Linux kernel; they will make all sorts of system calls that the
> simulator is not prepared to handle.  If you are trying to run the
> kernel itself under the simulator then this won't be a problem but you
> will probably have to supply models of at least some extra hardware.
> 
> It might help if you described the failure to execute in a bit more
> detail.
> 
> p.
> 
> 
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