[libre-riscv-dev] New Person

[Daniel Benusovich]

Sounds good, I will get started as soon as I can. Most of those terms sound
like magic but the idea looks very interesting. Any good starting points?

I am almost finished correcting the build folder issue, I have trouble
working during the week as I have a full time job! something something
sleep. As for pushing any updates for the python scripts and configuration
script should a separate branch and a pull request be made or push the
changes on sv?

- Daniel B.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 3:54 AM lkcl <lkcl at libre-riscv.org> wrote:

> daniel, i just thought of another potential (and very useful) task:
> what's your pppd sysadmin skills like?
>
> there's an issue with using spike as a simulator: the only way in or
> out is via the console.  in all of the buildroot / etc. etc.
> environments, a standard root login is provided (password is riscv if
> i recall correctly... ok on the freedom-u-sdk it's been changed to
> "sifive").
>
> the buildroot basically is placed into an initramfs, and loaded into
> memory.  there's nothing further that can be done.
>
> except... what if pppd was installed in the initramfs?  then, a ppp
> tunnel could hypothetically be set up, and, over that, an ssh login
> obtained, then an nfs root mount point created to the host, and
> pivot_root called.
>
> in this way it would actually be possible to run a full debian riscv
> distro... under spike.
>
> this would be extremely useful, and it's something i used to do back
> in 2003-2004 with embedded systems.  there however the networking was
> slightly easier, as the USB-OTG could be switched over to g_ether, and
> usbnet used on the host side.
>
> what do you think?
>
> l.
>