Re: Fw: [Qemu-devel] MIPS: UART access w/o -kernel option

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Alexander Voropay wrote:

> I'm thinking about adding a new MIPS platform to the Qemu:
> http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/Mips_Malta
> 
> The Malta is very popular reference platform for the MIPS development.
> There is a special Linux MIPS/Malta kernel. Montavista and many
> other companies are offering a MIPS Malta distributives with
> pre-compiled kernels. There is a NetBSD port to the Malta.
> VxWorks/Malta exists, e.t.c.
> 
> The Malta architecture is very similar to the current Qemu MIPS
> machine but the ISA addresses are different. Additionally, it
> has a PCI subsystem, so it should be possible to use existent
> Qemu PCI devices in the future. Malta has an standart PC ISA
> devices (inside the PIIX4 chip). The Qemu contains all necessary
> parts to introduce a new platform (except Galileo PCI).
> 
> Fabrice, is it difficult to add a new MIPS Malta platform
> to the MIPS Qemu ? Could you add at least a framework
> for this platform (CLI options, initial .c files) ?
> P.S.The MIPS BIOS/kernel donload code should be reusable
> for the any MIPS platforms.

Adding the Malta machine support would be very interesting. You can just 
copy the file mips_r4k.c to malta.c and modify it to add the missing parts.

Fabrice.