Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] IBM PowerPC 440EP Bamboo reference board emulation

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 06:17:32PM -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> Since most IO devices are integrated into the 440EP chip, "Bamboo support"
> mostly entails implementing the -kernel, -initrd, and -append options.
> 
> These options are implemented by loading the guest as if u-boot had done it,
> i.e. loading a flat device tree, updating it to hold initrd addresses, ram
> size, and command line, and passing the FDT address in r3.
> 
> Since we use it with KVM, we enable the virtio block driver and include hooks
> necessary for KVM support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden>
> ---
> Made comment more specific.
> ---
>  Makefile             |    2 +-
>  Makefile.target      |    2 +-
>  hw/boards.h          |    1 +
>  hw/ppc440_bamboo.c   |  190 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  pc-bios/bamboo.dtb   |  Bin 0 -> 3163 bytes
>  pc-bios/bamboo.dts   |  234 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

I guess the .dtb file is generated from the .dts. Could you give us more
details about that? When the tools need to generate the dtb file are
installed on the build machine, we may want to generate the .dtb during
the build process.

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