Re: [Qemu-ppc] State of PPC 440 emulation?

[Alexander Graf]

On 13.08.2012, at 11:09, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:49:45PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> On 12.08.2012, at 14:01, Radoslaw Kujawa <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello list.
>>> 
>>> What is the current state of PowerPC 440 core emulation? Quick look at qemu 
>>> source reveals that Bamboo and ML507 boards are supported. Do these really 
>>> work with emulated CPU, or are they only for KVM? Are they complete enough 
>>> to run OS (for example Linux) ?
>> 
>> Last time I tried, I had -M bamboo run Linux with emulation, yes. No 
>> guarantee everything works though. Also no guarantees as far as emulated 
>> devices go. We only emulate a subset of the devices present on a real bamboo 
>> board.
>> 
> 
> Hi the ML507 board is in a similar state.
> 
> In particular the LL-TEMAC ethernet device is missing and the kernel will
> fail at boot if you don't pass it a device-tree wihtout the lltemac.

Hrm. You might want to take a look at auto-generating the fdt in the machine 
code :).


Alex