Adding Michael back since I responded to him and he might not be on the list...
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 3:23 PM Brennan Ashton <bash...@brennanashton.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 26, 2023, 3:11 PM Michael Gielda <mgie...@antmicro.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alan, nice to meet you Nathan, >> >> Indeed, we discussed with Alan some time ago, having a Nuttx-focused >> dashboard can be done and we assume would be useful. We just didn’t get to >> that as it would have been yet another research project (we are now also >> building a U-Boot dashboard, as we added 64-bit Cortex-A support - >> https://antmicro.com/blog/2023/04/armv8-a-support-in-renode/ - as well as >> Cortex-R). But if there is interest, perhaps it’s worth revisiting the idea. >> >> On our end, we base the simulation platform configuration on Zephyr, so we >> basically need a mapping of platforms in Nuttx to their “Zephyr names” - we >> can start of course with 1-2 and expand to more with time. >> >> Best regards, >> >> Michael > > > Hey Michael, > I actually had used renode when added upstream support a few years ago with > the QuickLogic EOS S3, and it was quite helpful. That's when I talked a bit > about seeing if we could use it as a test platform here. > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1G1IKe3SjmB42eb7dhdoa4P_nREknsJy1/edit#slide=id.g9044e8e6ab_0_17 > > One of the reasons I added support to export build artifacts in CI was to > enable having downstream stages that can pick up the already generated elf. > > One thing at the time I hit with the targets I tested was some assumptions > around power and clock management that prevented NuttX from booting (waiting > for status bits usually). So if we do go down this route I suspect we will > need to upstream some of those bits to the emulation which I don't recall > being too complicated. > > If people have a supported platform they would like to see I would be happy > to wire a proof of concept through. > > --Brennan
