[V9fs-developer] IBM Full System Simulator (& v9fs refression)

[Eric V. H. <er...@gm...>]

Last week IBM Research released their Full System Simulator for the PPC970=
=20
(http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/systemsim970) to Alphaworks
(http://www.ibm.com/alphaworks).

I've been using this simulator to help debug and regress v9fs for the
past year and it has really helped my development cycle.  I know
several of you have expressed frustration with some of the nastier
v9fs bugs taking down your system during development - this is a great
tool to help solve that problem.

The one catch is you'll have to build a cross-dev environment (unless
you happen to be on a Linux PPC64 system).  There are scripts and
instructions for setting up cross-development environments included
with the packages on alphaworks.

I've compressed my standard v9fs regression disk image and put it on
texas.9grid.us.  9grid.us uses sources.cs.bell-labs.com as its
authentication domain, so you should be able to use either v9fs or
drawterm to get access to it.  It's in
/usr/ericvh/images/v9fs_disk.img.gz and its about 640MB.   It has a
complete gentoo ppc64 disk image including plan9ports, u9fs, fsx,
postmark, and bonnie.

            -eric