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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

Am Sonntag, den 30.01.2011, 11:13 +0000 schrieb Peter Maydell:
...
> 
> > Do I have to patch qemu to support a new machine?
> 
> Yes, you would have to implement support for this board,
> and also implement models of any devices which qemu
> doesn't already have (probably most of them). In particular
> if you are interested in a working model of the graphics
> chipset then this is a very large amount of work and might
> even be impossible if the chipset vendor doesn't release
> enough documentation on it. As a rough guide, the code
> to implement (most of) the OMAP3 chipset support in
> qemu is about 29,000 lines of code.
> 
> Sorry I don't have a more encouraging answer.
> 
> -- PMM


Thank you for your answer. At least I know I can stop searching, which
satisfies me for now. I will get the hardware to go on working.

Regards

C