[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1231093] Re: qemu-system-arm does nothing but spin wheels

2013-09-26 Thread Peter Maydell
No, none of those people are using a kernel built for the rpi, because that simply won't work. They will be using a kernel for versatilepb (or some random hacked variant on it) plus the rpi filesystem image. This is all a bit less than fully supported because the versatilepb board doesn't actually

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1231093] Re: qemu-system-arm does nothing but spin wheels

2013-09-26 Thread M Eriksen
> Running an ARM kernel on an x86 model is obviously not going to work either so I have no idea why you did that. This was simply to demonstrate that qemu-system-x86_64 seemed to be doing something even when fed an inappropriate kernel, whereas the qemu- system-arm did not. > You're trying to ru

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1231093] Re: qemu-system-arm does nothing but spin wheels

2013-09-25 Thread Peter Maydell
You're trying to run a Raspberry Pi kernel on a model of a Versatile PB board. These two bits of ARM hardware are totally different and a kernel for one won't work on the other. QEMU is correctly emulating a kernel which has crashed or simply failed to output anything because it isn't sending seria