On Thursday, August 25, 2011 16:21:51 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Simon Glass wrote: > > For speed, debugging and convenience, it would be nice to run U-Boot > > under a generic Linux environment on a workstation, and test all the > > generic non-platform code. The basic problem with this is that the > > non-platform code requires the platform code to operate. Even the x86 > > platform code is designed for standalone operation on a particular x86 > > board, and is not suitable for running under x86 Linux. > > Some parts of what you are looking for can be done by running U-Boot > images in a QEMU based emulated envrionment. So far we have only a > few targets in the tree that actually support this. I wish we had > more of them. > > I am aware that this is a different thing from what you propose here, > but I would like to state that we should not forget this option - > anybody who wants to work in that area will be more than welcome, too.
i do a lot of testing using the GNU sim and Blackfin boards. the goal there is that the GNU sim is able to execute all of the Blackfin builds *unmodified*, so i dont need sep configs. as you say, both methods are very useful to have. -mike
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