Re: [Qemu-ppc] VxWorks 5.5.1 on qemu powerpc

[Fabien Chouteau]

On 04/01/2014 02:14 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 04/01/2014 12:27 PM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>> On 04/01/2014 12:07 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>> On 04/01/2014 11:54 AM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
>>>> Hi Maxime, Alex,
>>>>
>>>> On 04/01/2014 11:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>>> On 04/01/2014 11:04 AM, FOURNIER Maxime wrote:
>>>>>> Did someone managed to make this OS boot on qemu-powerpc ?
>>>>> Yes, Fabien Chouteau had VxWorks running on e500 IIRC.
>>>>>
>>>> We actually have many products for vxWorks now, vxWorks6 and
>>>> vxworks6-cert on ppc604 and e500v2, vx653 on e500v2. No vxworks5 for the
>>>> moment...
>>>>
>>>>>> Did we miss something or did we make wrong assumptions ?
>>>>>>
>>>>   From experience I can tell you that vxWorks will not work out of the box
>>>> on QEMU. First because QEMU doesn't emulate the boards supported by
>>>> vxWorks, and also because QEMU is focused on Linux.
>>>>
>>>> There's different way to deal with this, you can either create a custom
>>>> BSP in vxWorks that support one of QEMU's board, or you can support a
>>>> new board in QEMU (that's what we do).
>>> Hrm, any plans to move these upstream? :)
>>>
>> Yes of course, we want them upstream eventually. During the last few
>> years you've seen some of our patches (booke timers and eTSEC for
>> examples). For boards it think it's not that easy, what would you say
>> about a complete board that you cannot test because only vxWorks runs on
>> it?
> 
> As long as I have a (vxworks) image I can verify with that it still works 
> that's a perfectly desirable thing to have.
> 

That's precisely the problem, I can't give you a vxWorks image...