[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] powerpc: Add the Virtex5 ML507 refdesign board

[Alexander Graf]

Am 11.09.2010 um 16:09 schrieb "Edgar E. Iglesias" <address@hidden>:

> Hi,
> 
> This series adds support for emulating virtex5 ml507 PPC-440 boards.
> I've tested this by booting linux into userspace and running a bunch
> of cryptographic testsuites on top of the guest.
> 
> One thing to note is that QEMU lacks a model for the Xilinx LL-TEMAC
> and linux will hang if the device-tree says there is one but there is
> no model backing it. So either you'll have to disable the driver or
> remove it from the device tree, I've been doing the latter. In the
> near future I beleive we will contribute a model of the LL-TEMAC and
> SDMA.
> 
> I can provide device-trees and kernel configs/images to anybody who
> might be interested in testing further.
> 
> As I said before, this does not add full 440/BookE emulation, instead
> I've only done the bare minimum to get linux to boot the virtex5.
> The MMU and timer patches could definitely be cleaner, any hints on howto
> improve things are welcome.
> 
> I'll be happy to fix any issues that people may find.

Please give me a few days for the review. I'm not as fluent in BookE yet :)

Alex

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