Re: [Qemu-discuss] Coldfire 5282 Support

[Peter Maydell]

On 5 September 2017 at 20:30, William Mahoney <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Thomas. One more question. Somewhere there must be a "what
> parts to look for where” document. You know, a “If you are interested
> in the device support for CPU XYZ, you look in the …XYZ directory” etc.

There's no document particularly. The rough structure is that
devices live in hw/<category> (eg hw/char for UARTs), SoC
models and board models live in hw/<architecture> (hw/m68k
for m68k and coldfire), and the CPU emulation itself lives
in target/<architecture>/.

> I’d like to find this and/or anything else to clue me in before
> starting as to the level of difficulty to add 5282. I mean, I
> have decades of “C” background, I know the 5282 well, but am I
> going to be 10 days or 10 weeks?

This depends a lot on how different the 5282 is from what
we currently support (5206 and 5208, from the looks of things).
Do you need any/all of:
 * new CPU instructions ?
 * other new CPU features ?
 * a new SoC ?
 * new devices (UART, timer, etc etc) that aren't in the
   set we currently emulate ?
 * a new board model that uses this new CPU ?
or will what we have at the moment be all you need in
one or more of those areas?

Depending on the answers it could be anywhere betwen 10
days and 10 weeks...

thanks
-- PMM