From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52542) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGo7B-0007op-HI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 04:04:22 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGo7A-0005Qf-L1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 04:04:21 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:54183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QGo7A-0005QL-Hi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 04:04:20 -0400 Received: by iwl42 with SMTP id 42so5542122iwl.4 for ; Mon, 02 May 2011 01:04:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <533680.9209.qm@web26501.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> References: <533680.9209.qm@web26501.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 09:04:18 +0100 Message-ID: From: Peter Maydell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] implementing ARM926EJ-S support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alessandro Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 2 May 2011 02:53, Alessandro wrote: > For study, I'm thinking to write a simple VM that can simulate an ARM SoC > based on ARM926EJ-S core. > > I have basically two choice: > > 1- build all from scratch, full-simulating core and peripherals; > 2- modify a pre-existing VM with ARM architecture support(QEMU). > > Second option can be a viable way? QEMU already implements an ARM926 model, so all you'd have to implement would be the peripheral models for whatever SoC you had in mind. That sounds much easier to me :-) -- PMM