[U-Boot] Using qemu-system-ppc to boot U-Boot

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Frank,

In message <CADNf2sxrQFDU0LLQWp5huRGgQiKbaLik1+2C=Oj=gjORP6XacA@mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to figure out if anyone has ported a PPC system to QEMU
> that is capable of booting U-Boot. Similar to the ARM versatilepb
> target, but for PPC instead. I've tried the Bamboo and MPC8544DS but
> it seems they only use stubs to OS calls and parses a DTB for info.

Did you check which configurations the Yocto project are using?  They
provide qemu based emulations for ARM, MIPS, PPC and x86, and I would
be really surprised if the ARM and PPC configs were not based on
U-Boot ...  [ARM: beagleboard; PPC: mpc8315e-rdb; MIPS:
routerstationpro]

> If there's no target supported yet, what about a QEMU target the
> support booting an ARM target in big-endian mode? Big-endian is
> important in order to test some endian dependent code.

If you need BE systems, use PPC.  For ARM, they are just a tiny
minority (so far at least) that I don't think it makes sense to invest
efforts in these.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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