Am 29.10.2014 um 14:28 schrieb Christopher Covington: > On 10/28/2014 01:08 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 28 October 2014 16:38, Liviu Ionescu <i...@livius.net> wrote: >>> I'm not sure what the QEMU definition of '-machine' stands for, a device >>> or a board, but I think that the ARM definitions are good candidates for >>> QEMU emulation names. >> >> -machine specifies a board name. We don't care how you build the binary >> for the board or what library you choose to use for hardware abstraction. >> >>> once the core Cortex-M emulation is fully functional, it should be >>> easier to add support for specific devices, by configuring some of >>> the parameters (flash/ram, add some peripherals, etc). >> >> QEMU doesn't conveniently support runtime flexible specification >> of what is present in an emulated board (beyond very basic things >> like "how much RAM"). What the .c file in the QEMU sources defines >> is what you get. > > I've sometimes thought it might be cool if QEMU could consume a DTB and > emulate whatever is described, assuming the devices and configurations are > supported. I've yet to come up with a real problem to motivate this > "solution", though.
Xilinx already implemented something along those lines in their branch. Cheers, Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
