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From: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
To: Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: Building ppc/powerpc kernel to run under QEMU.
Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 11:46:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070511014629.GA31705@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464397B8.408@genesi-usa.com>

On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:07:52PM +0100, Matt Sealey wrote:
> QEMU really really wants a PREP kernel, and that stuff's just not in the new
> arch/powerpc tree anymore is it?

qemu is PReP, eh?  Well that would explain the not working: PReP
hasn't been ported to arch/powerpc yet.  The fact that qemu acts like
a PReP might make doing so rather easier.

> I'd love to see the device tree once QEMU's kernel has booted :D
> 
> I wonder.. would it be useful to have a qemu platform in arch/powerpc and
> for someone to start hacking in devices from a non-emulated point of view?
> It seems a bit of a waste in my mind to emulate a network card, serial port
> IDE interface, ADB (yick!) and a VESA graphics adapter in such 'detail' when
> it can be passed back to the emulation somehow through some kind of clever
> call interface (maybe just have the zero page of the emulation contain a
> bunch of 'ports' which are really function calls pointers..?)

Possibly in the long term.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-11  1:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  2:03 Building ppc/powerpc kernel to run under QEMU Rob Landley
2007-05-10 17:28 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-05-10 22:07   ` Matt Sealey
2007-05-11  1:46     ` David Gibson [this message]
2007-05-12  3:30       ` Rob Landley
2007-05-12  1:46     ` Rob Landley
2007-05-12  3:00       ` Doug Maxey
2007-05-12  4:05         ` Rob Landley
2007-05-12  1:14   ` Rob Landley
2007-05-14 19:09     ` Hollis Blanchard

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