Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

[Alexander Graf]

On 03.07.2012, at 07:07, Eli Lewis wrote:

>> 
> 
>>> Maybe
>>> we can change the BSP of POK in order to support the MPC8544DS board.
>> 
>> It's not only the board. Kernel mode is vastly different from the 601 
>> you're probably targeting today.
>> 
> 
> 
> Currently POK
> supposes to run on a sort of ppc750 processor (I am invoking Qemu with -cpu
> ppc32) . Could you please suggest me some useful documentation that could 
> help me
> perform the POK porting? 

Stuart, Scott, is there any helpful documentation available for 750 -> e500 
conversion?

>>> In QEmu, is the SMP emulation supported for all e500  or for the e500v2 
>> only?
>> 
>> It should work with all e500 cores. Keep in mind that QEMU doesn't implement 
>> 100% of the spec yet though, so if you encounter issues, let me know.
>  
> Where I can
> find (if any) a list of the functionalities implemented/not implemented? 

There is no list :). Most of the bits not implemented are SPRs, so you will 
quickly find out. They will throw an error at you.


Alex