Re: [PATCH v16 0/4] m68k: Add Virtual M68k Machine

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-04-11T09:56:13Z

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 10:15 PM Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:
> The most powerful m68k machine emulated by QEMU is a Quadra 800,
> but this machine is very limited: only 1 GiB of memory and only some
> specific interfaces, with no DMA.
>
> The Virtual M68k Machine is based on Goldfish interfaces defined by Google
> for Android simulator. It uses Goldfish-rtc (timer and RTC),
> Goldfish-pic (PIC) and Goldfish-tty (for early tty).
>
> The machine is created with 128 virtio-mmio buses, and they can
> be used to add serial console, GPU, disk, NIC, HID, hwrng, 9PFS...
>
> The virtual m68k machine has been merged in QEMU and will be available
> with the release 6.0.
>
> This series introduces the support of this new machine in the linux kernel.

Thanks, queued in the m68k for-v5.19 branch.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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