Re: Emulation for riscv

[Bin Meng]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:09 AM Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:36 AM Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:56:38 PDT (-0700), alistair23@gmail.com wrote:
> > >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:58 PM Moises Arreola <moyarrezam@gmail.com> 
> > >> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Hello everyone, my name is Moses and I'm trying to set up a VM for a 
> > >>> risc-v processor, I'm using the Risc-V Getting Started Guide and on the 
> > >>> final step I'm getting an error while trying to launch the virtual 
> > >>> machine using the cmd:
> > >>
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >> Please don't use the RISC-V Getting Started Guide. Pretty much all of
> > >> the information there is out of date and wrong. Unfortunately we are
> > >> unable to correct it.
> > >>
> > >> The QEMU wiki is a much better place for information:
> > >> https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/RISCV
> > >
> > > Ya, everything at riscv.org is useless.  It's best to stick to the open 
> > > source
> > > documentation, as when that gets out of date we can at least fix it.  
> > > Using a
> > > distro helps a lot here, the wiki describes how to run a handful of 
> > > popular
> > > ones that were ported to RISC-V early but if your favorite isn't on the 
> > > list
> > > then it may have its own documentation somewhere else.
> >
> > Even better if you could submit some .rst pages for QEMU's git:
> >
> >   docs/system/target-riscv.rst
> >   docs/system/riscv/virt.rst (and maybe the other models)
> >
> > then we could improve the user manual where RiscV is currently a little
> > under-represented. A number of the systems have simple example command
> > lines or explain the kernel support needed for the model.
>
> Thanks for pointing that out Alex. Bin has sent some patches for this
> so RISC-V should have a presence soon.
>

Yep, after the initial patches are merged, we can start adding more
RISC-V docs in reST.

Regards,
Bin