From: Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, paul@codesourcery.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 4/4] hw: Add support for a dummy ARMv7-M board
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:11:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <503CEDA9.5030706@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_3pwWmvAfsrBJ8iNrvXV35JrD-j_RfdOn5dzi+rWaA5w@mail.gmail.com>
On 08/28/2012 07:48 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 27 August 2012 21:37, Meador Inge <meadori@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> This patch adds support for a "dummy" ARMv7-M board so that
>> QEMU can be used as an ISS for ARMv7-M processors. For example,
>> running an image compiled for the Cortex-M3 with -cpu cortex-m3
>> should just work.
>
> So what programs would run on this 'dummy' board which would not
> execute correctly on the existing stellaris board models?
Similar programs will run on the Stellaris models, but the RAM on
those models is severely limited (8KB for LM3S811EVB and 64KB for LM3S6965EVB)
and it is hard wired. Having some board that can handle ARMv7-M with more RAM
(and can be used with -m) is useful.
--
Meador Inge
CodeSourcery / Mentor Embedded
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-28 16:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-27 20:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 0/4] Improve ARMv7-M architecture emulation Meador Inge
2012-08-27 20:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 1/4] hw: Add support for loading ARMv7-M applications via -kernel Meador Inge
2012-08-28 12:43 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-27 20:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 2/4] target-arm: Make SYS_HEAPINFO work for ARMv7-M Meador Inge
2012-08-28 12:47 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-27 20:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 3/4] hw: Deduce the default machine from the specified CPU model Meador Inge
2012-08-27 20:47 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-28 12:58 ` Paul Brook
2012-08-28 13:10 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-28 13:32 ` Paul Brook
2012-08-28 13:54 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-27 20:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1 4/4] hw: Add support for a dummy ARMv7-M board Meador Inge
2012-08-28 12:48 ` Peter Maydell
2012-08-28 16:11 ` Meador Inge [this message]
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