From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Persistent U-Boot environment variables under QEMU
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:39:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100214113920.153e393f@surf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <727912.43003.qm@web44816.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
Hello,o
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:51:26 -0800 (PST)
Jim Thomas <jimthomasembedded@yahoo.com> wrote:
> With real hardware, the U-Boot environment variables are persistent
> in flash memory.
>
> Is there a way to simulate this with QEMU? I would not go to the
> trouble to manually enter the U-Boot environment variables each time
> I boot under QEMU, but if there is a persistence mechanism available
> then including U-Boot might be practical.
Qemu can emulate flash memory, so U-Boot can be used "normally". In
2008, I managed to get U-Boot working on the versatilepb board
emulation of Qemu, with few changes to Qemu and U-Boot. See
http://thomas.enix.org/Blog-20081002153859-Technologie for details. The
three first patches have been merged into Qemu since then, but the last
(and most important) patch was never merged.
Cheers,
Thomas
--
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux
development, consulting, training and support.
http://free-electrons.com
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2010-02-13 21:51 [Buildroot] Persistent U-Boot environment variables under QEMU Jim Thomas
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