Re: [Qemu-arm] Does QEMU support AArch64 Big Endian emulation on x86-64 host?

[Ruslan Bilovol]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:39 PM, Peter Crosthwaite
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Ruslan Bilovol
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 25 January 2016 at 13:51, Ruslan Bilovol <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to run AArch64 Big Endian image under QEMU that I built for
>>>>> my x86-64 Ubuntu host from latest master branch and when I'm running
>>>>> kernel I'm getting next error:
>>>>>  > qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or ROM at 
>>>>> 0x500208000080ffff
>>>>>
>>>>> Similar image built as Little Endian runs fine with same QEMU tool
>>>>> (qemu-system-aarch64)
>>>>>
>>>>> So I'm wondering is it possible to run QEMU AArch64 Big Endian
>>>>> emulation on x86-64 host?
>>>
>>> It is not currently supported, no. However there are some patches
>>> on the list[*] to add this support, so I expect a future QEMU version
>>> will do this.
>>>
>>> [*] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-01/msg03025.html
>>
>> Thank you four quick answer.
>> I tried to apply this patch series to latest qemu master branch, but it
>> fails to apply in misc places. Peter Crosthwaite, could you please say
>> which commit ID is it based on?
>>
>
> I pushed the branch just now to here:
>
> https://github.com/pcrost/qemu/tree/arm-be.next

Thanks Peter.

I've built qemu on this branch and tried to run it with my
AArch64 Big Endian binaries but still get same error:
"qemu: fatal: Trying to execute code outside RAM or
ROM at 0x00007fe60d8e0a30"

So it looks like (unfortunately) these patches do not enable
AArch64 BE support

Best regards,
Ruslan