Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM ethernet fixes

[M. Warner Losh]

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            Paul Brook <address@hidden> writes:
: > Given all these improvements in arm support, what's the status of
: > system level support for arm, and what system is emulated?  
: 
: Short answer is it should work. A default linux kernel config doesn't quite 
: work because it hangs probing for a non-existant VGA card. Disable the VGA 
: console driver and it's fine.
: 
: It emulates most of an Arm Integrator/CP board with an arm1026E cpu.
: Available peripherals are two UARTs, and a NIC. More than enough to boot 
: linux :-)

Well, I'm hoping to boot FreeBSD/arm on the thing.  two uarts and a
nic is more than enough to boot FreeBSD as well :-)

: > You don't need device emulation to do userland stuf...
: 
: No, but it's a diskless board. You either run everything off an initrd, or 
you 
: need network.

That's good to know.

Warner