Comments for The Moxie Blog

Comment on Still hacking… by atgreen

atgreen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 18:03:01 +0000

Oops - I'll update the "About" page.

I can be reached at green@moxielogic.com.

Thanks,

Anthony

Comment on Still hacking… by ariy

ariy — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:13:01 +0000

Hi.
I can't fins a way to contact the author of this blog.
Is that possible?

Thanks.

Comment on The Moxielyzer by atgreen

atgreen — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:31:13 +0000

Ha.. yes, the banner does look better on a console.

I have been making many local improvements to the kernel port, but it still doesn't get much further than this yet. I'll try to check-in my work so far tonight.

I'll also look into the submodule business. I spent a fair amount of time trying to get those modules to checkout automatically.

BTW - you should be able to just run "moxie-elf-run vmlinux" because the initramfs is built into the kernel image.

Thanks for your continued feedback!

Comment on The Moxielyzer by sidmanning

sidmanning — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:07:28 +0000

Wow that “MoxieuClinux” banner looks much better in my tty

Comment on The Moxielyzer by sidmanning

sidmanning — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:06:15 +0000

I got side-tracked for a while but I'm able to build having only to make a couple of changes.

I had to manually download your linux-2.6-moxie and busybox-moxie but afterward the build finished. The HACKING guide implies that the build.xml will pull these trees but they didn't show up for me. The error messages make it plain what was missing so it was no big deal to fix.

When the build finished I could build and run the programs in the test directory

The kernel "booted" to the MoxieuClinux banner. I created an ext2 ramfs, copied busybox and then simpler stuff, booted using flags like this:
./root/usr/bin/moxie-elf-run -v linux-2.6/vmlinux root=tmp/disk init=sbin/init

Each the boot ends with a sim_halt:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 970k freed
___ ___ _ _____ _ _
| / | (_) / __ (_)
| . . | ___ __ ___ ___ _ _| / / |_ _ __ _ ___ __
| |/| |/ _ \ / / |/ _ | | | | | | | | '_ | | | / /
| | | | (_) |> <| | __/ | |_| | __/ | | | | | |_| |> <
_| |_/___//_/__|___| __,_|____/_|_|_| |_|__,_/_/_
core: 4 byte read to unmapped address 0xfffffff8 at 0x0
sim_halt - bad long jump

I remember that the kernel can be built with an included ramfs and maybe that is missing. I don't need to boot linux but its pretty cool that it gets this far.

Overall this is great, an excellent reference base.

Thanks,

Comment on The Moxielyzer by atgreen

atgreen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:04:17 +0000

Fixed – thanks!

http://github.com/atgreen/moxiedev/commit/6f3bd...

Comment on The Moxielyzer by sidmanning

sidmanning — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:43:01 +0000

This is the actual message:
[echo] ====================================================================
[echo] ====== Verify that PATH is sane ====================================
[echo] ==================================================================== [exec] mktemp: failed to create file via template `/home/sid/moxie/moxiedev
/root/usr/bin/tmp.O9UzzAGy9L': No such file or directory
[exec] ./scripts/precheck/check-path: line 25: $TMPEXE: ambiguous redirect
[exec] chmod: missing operand after `+x'

Comment on The Moxielyzer by sidmanning

sidmanning — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:42:06 +0000

I got your tree and I'm building now. The only glitch was that I needed to create the …/moxiedev/root/usr/bin directory. When this directory isn't present the sanity check fails when trying to write to that directory

Comment on The Moxielyzer by atgreen

atgreen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:27:34 +0000

Read-only cloning is working for me now. You might want to try this again. Thanks!

Comment on The Moxielyzer by atgreen

atgreen — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:13:30 +0000

Try again with http://moxielogic.org/download/moxielogic-repo-... and let me know how it works.