From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] Using qemu-system-ppc to boot U-Boot
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:59:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F722A44.1080504@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120327205350.1B2CA2002FF@gemini.denx.de>
On 03/27/2012 03:53 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Frank,
>
> In message <CADNf2sxrQFDU0LLQWp5huRGgQiKbaLik1+2C=Oj=gjORP6XacA@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.
I don't see mpc83xx support in QEMU at all.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-27 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-27 18:41 [U-Boot] Using qemu-system-ppc to boot U-Boot Frank Svendsbøe
2012-03-27 20:53 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-03-27 20:59 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2012-03-27 21:55 ` Tom Rini
2012-03-27 21:58 ` Scott Wood
2012-03-28 17:13 ` Frank Svendsbøe
2012-03-27 22:16 ` Marek Vasut
2012-03-28 17:19 ` Frank Svendsbøe
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