Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] Add generic Nios II board.

[Julian Brown]

On Fri, 18 May 2018 21:50:55 +0200
Marek Vasut <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 05/18/2018 09:23 PM, Julian Brown wrote:
> > This patch adds support for a generic MMU-less Nios II board that
> > can be used e.g. for bare-metal compiler testing.  Nios II booting
> > is also tweaked so that bare-metal binaries start executing in RAM
> > starting at 0x00000000, rather than an alias at 0xc0000000, which
> > allows features such as unwinding to work when binaries are linked
> > to start at the beginning of the address space.
> >   
> So why dont you just use the 10m50 GHRD for this , why do you need
> custom board ?

I think because we wanted a board with no MMU, since our startup code
doesn't support that. Maybe Andrew can confirm/deny?

Thanks,

Julian