On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Tom Rini <tr...@ti.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 03:59:48PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote: >> On 03/27/2012 03:53 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> > Dear Frank, >> > >> > In message >> > <CADNf2sxrQFDU0LLQWp5huRGgQiKbaLik1+2C=Oj=gjorp6x...@mail.gmail.com> you >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm trying to figure out if anyone has ported a PPC system to QEMU >> >> that is capable of booting U-Boot. Similar to the ARM versatilepb >> >> target, but for PPC instead. I've tried the Bamboo and MPC8544DS but >> >> it seems they only use stubs to OS calls and parses a DTB for info. >> > >> > Did you check which configurations the Yocto project are using? They >> > provide qemu based emulations for ARM, MIPS, PPC and x86, and I would >> > be really surprised if the ARM and PPC configs were not based on >> > U-Boot ... [ARM: beagleboard; PPC: mpc8315e-rdb; MIPS: >> > routerstationpro] >> >> I'm not familiar with what Yocto does, but at least for Freescale PPC >> chips QEMU does not emulate enough of the hardware to run U-Boot (at >> least, not without significant U-Boot hacking that I'm not aware of >> anyone having done). QEMU loads Linux directly. > > Putting my OE-guy hat on, the qemu-ppc target used is 'mac99'. It was > switched over from prep back in January of this year. From my own past > diggings, there's not really a newer machine option as all of the > support added to qemu from Freescale and IBM has been kvm-oriented > rather than full machine emulation oriented. So to run U-Boot under > qemu on a BE machine, you'd need to port U-Boot over. Or, build the > sandbox arch on a BE host, such as Linux running under qemu-ppc. Then > it should be BE, yes? >
KVM would be fine if I wanted to run Linux here, but I don't... Well I do, but my current employer don't. BE is a requirement yes. In fact, more so than running than a PPC compatible system. Best regards, Frank _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
