barebox Simulator

barebox can be run as a simulator on your host to check and debug new non hardware related features.

How to build barebox for simulation

How to run barebox simulator

$ barebox [<OPTIONS>]

Options can be:

-i <file>

Map a <file> to barebox. This option can be given multiple times. The <file>s will show up as /dev/fd0 ... /dev/fdx in the barebox simulator.

-e <file>

Map <file> to barebox. With this option <file>s are mapped as /dev/env0 ... /dev/envx and thus are used as default environment. A clean file generated with dd will do to get started with an empty environment

-O <file>

Register <file> as a console capable of doing stdout. <file> can be a regular file or a fifo.

-I <file>

Register <file> as a console capable of doing stdin. <file> can be a regular file or a fifo.

How to debug barebox simulator