[Buildroot] [PATCH] ppc64 e5500 arch: new qemu target

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>]

Hello,

On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 09:25:47 -0500, Matthew Weber wrote:

> > diff --git a/board/qemu/ppc64-e5500/linux.fragment b/board/qemu/ppc64-e5500/linux.fragment
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..81993d2
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/board/qemu/ppc64-e5500/linux.fragment
> > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
> > +# Enables generic e500 arch support for QEMU
> > +CONFIG_PPC_QEMU_E500=y
> > diff --git a/board/qemu/ppc64-e5500/readme.txt b/board/qemu/ppc64-e5500/readme.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..8da23f9
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/board/qemu/ppc64-e5500/readme.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> > +Run the emulation with:
> > +
> > + qemu-system-ppc64 -M ppce500 -cpu e5500 -m 256 -kernel output/images/uImage -append 'console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram' -initrd output/images/rootfs.cpio.gz -serial mon:stdio -nographic
> > +  
> 
> This arch seems like it had good support back to QEMU 2.0.0.  However,
> I'll be submitting a bootlin e6500 arch variant toolchain but I'm
> still working out what version of QEMU can even boot that arch.  As of
> 2.11.x support hasn't been merged.

I don't get it. In the same paragraph you say "it had good support back
to Qemu 2.0.0" and  "as of 2.11.x support hasn't been merged".

Could you clarify ?

Best regards,

Thomas
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Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons)
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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