Re: [Qemu-ppc] State of PPC 440 emulation?

[Edgar E. Iglesias]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 11:46:54AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 13.08.2012, at 11:09, Edgar E. Iglesias wrote:
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> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:49:45PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >> 
> >> On 12.08.2012, at 14:01, Radoslaw Kujawa <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Hello list.
> >>> 
> >>> What is the current state of PowerPC 440 core emulation? Quick look at 
> >>> qemu source reveals that Bamboo and ML507 boards are supported. Do these 
> >>> really work with emulated CPU, or are they only for KVM? Are they 
> >>> complete enough to run OS (for example Linux) ?
> >> 
> >> Last time I tried, I had -M bamboo run Linux with emulation, yes. No 
> >> guarantee everything works though. Also no guarantees as far as emulated 
> >> devices go. We only emulate a subset of the devices present on a real 
> >> bamboo board.
> >> 
> > 
> > Hi the ML507 board is in a similar state.
> > 
> > In particular the LL-TEMAC ethernet device is missing and the kernel will
> > fail at boot if you don't pass it a device-tree wihtout the lltemac.
> 
> Hrm. You might want to take a look at auto-generating the fdt in the machine 
> code :).

Yes, something like that would be nice

Cheers,
Edgar