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

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Wood
On 07/03/2012 02:45 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 03.07.2012, at 07:07, Eli Lewis wrote: > >>> >> 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 t

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-03 Thread Alexander Graf
On 03.07.2012, at 07:07, Eli Lewis wrote: >> > >>> 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 s

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 Alexander Graf
On 02.07.2012, at 19:44, Eli Lewis wrote: >> > >> 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

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 Andreas Färber
Hi, Am 29.06.2012 15:55, schrieb Eli Lewis: > > 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

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 02.07.2012, at 12:10, Eli Lewis wrote: >>> 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 d

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 Alexander Graf
On 02.07.2012, at 11:05, Eli Lewis wrote: > Thank you > for your replay. Please don't top-post :). > 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-

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

Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

2012-07-01 Thread Alexander Graf
On 29.06.2012, at 15:55, Eli Lewis wrote: > > > 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:

[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