MIPS emulator for FreeBSD?

[saxon3049]

I have been mucking about with low power processors for a while now but they have always been X86 based (AMD Geode / Intel Atom) but now I have a hankering to mess around with a MIPS processor and can get my hands on some embedded hardware. But before I spend much money on the hardware I would like to try programming in emulator first.

I would like it to run on FreeBSD and / or OSX, if you could point me in the way of a suitable emulator I would greatly appreciate it, also I am looking for your tips and hints about MIPS processors in regards to longevity of the platform and how hard it is to port code over to this platform both in Ruby and C / C++.

This is my first serious attempt at another platform other than X86 and X64 so please be gentile. :stud

[cajunman4life]

Qemu has a MIPS emulation mode.

http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html

As for the platform, can't help you there. I'm intel/sparc only.

[saxon3049]

Thanks for that, it might just be my quick gloss over of the discription but it comes off like it is a plug in for xen.

[cajunman4life]

Nope, qemu and xen are two separate technologies.

[sossego]

http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/ Sub directories in there.
Look through them.

[mmoll]

GXemul (emulators/gxemul) is also worth a look: http://gxemul.sourceforge.net/

[eyebone]

qemu is almost everything u need for different architectures ;) i am always impressed how much is supported already. for mips:

qemu-system-mips qemu-system-mips64el
qemu-system-mips64 qemu-system-mipsel


and some more:

qemu-system-arm qemu-system-mips64el qemu-system-sh4eb
qemu-system-cris qemu-system-mipsel qemu-system-sparc
qemu-system-m68k qemu-system-ppc qemu-system-sparc64
qemu-system-microblaze qemu-system-ppc64 qemu-system-x86_64
qemu-system-mips qemu-system-ppcemb
qemu-system-mips64 qemu-system-sh4