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From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, paul@codesourcery.com
Cc: octane@alinto.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Support For Octeon/Cavium CPU (MIPS system)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 09:55:42 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080522.095542.-1350511548.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805221427.26860.paul@codesourcery.com>

In message: <200805221427.26860.paul@codesourcery.com>
            Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:
: > I own a cavium/octeon board. I run a linux on it.
: >
: > I want to usr qemu for convenience in order to continue my developpements.
: >
: > I know that Cavium/octeon board are MIPS CPU.
: 
: Not really. They're MIPS with extra weirdness.

All SoCs are MIPS with extra documented weirdness.  The OCTEON CPUs
aren't documented in a public...

: Your kernel needs to match the exact CPU and board that you're
: emulating. i.e.  if you want to use an unmodified kernel you need to
: add support for both the CPU and board to qemu.

This is true.  fortunately, many other SoCs have had their support
added to QEMU...

Warner

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-22 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-22 10:48 [Qemu-devel] Support For Octeon/Cavium CPU (MIPS system) octane indice
2008-05-22 13:27 ` Paul Brook
2008-05-22 15:55   ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2008-05-22 16:03     ` Paul Brook
2008-05-22 16:17       ` M. Warner Losh
2008-05-22 16:52         ` Thiemo Seufer
2008-05-22 22:04           ` Jamie Lokier
2008-05-22 15:47 ` M. Warner Losh

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