Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-03 Thread Eli Lewis
>> >> Stuart, Scott, is there any helpful documentation available for 750 -> > e500 conversion? > > Read the chip manuals, the ISA and/or EREF, and look at what Linux does > differently for each. Thank you!   > What is POK? A simple real time embedded OS. http://pok.safety-critical.net/ Eli

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-02 Thread Eli Lewis
> >> Maybe >> we can change the BSP of POK in order to support the MPC8544DS board. > > It's not only the board. Kernel mode is vastly different from the 601 > you're probably targeting today. > Currently POK supposes to run on a sort of ppc750 processor (I am invoking Qemu with -cpu ppc32

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-02 Thread Eli Lewis
> > Well, PReP is dead since the mid-90's, no [1]? :) I'd be surprised if > you could get recent hardware still supporting it. Plus, I don't think it > really makes all that much sense. PReP is basically a 90's x86 machine with > PPC CPU. Not exactly what you'd consider elegant design. > > Wh

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-02 Thread Eli Lewis
>> I need to modify >> and test a very simple kernel (actually running on a single-core only) on >> a multi-core PReP platform; I currently have no real multi-core HW so I am > looking >> for a multi-core PReP emulator. > > Why would anyone do PReP today still? Good question :-) I am wo

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-02 Thread Eli Lewis
: Eli Lewis Cc: qemu-devel qemu-devel ; Andreas Färber Sent: Sunday, July 1, 2012 10:36 PM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture On 29.06.2012, at 15:55, Eli Lewis wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I would like to use qemu to emulate a muliticore PowerPC  PReP mac

[Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-06-29 Thread Eli Lewis
Hi all, I would like to use qemu to emulate a muliticore PowerPC  PReP machine but it see that the SMP is not supported for the PReP architecture. In fact, running: qemu-system-ppc -M prep -smp 2 It returns this message: Number of SMP cpus requested (2), exceeds max cpus supported by mach