RE: [Qemu-devel] Support for new target emulator

[Boyapati, Anitha]

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> From: Rabin Vincent [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Rabin
> Vincent
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:33 PM
> To: Boyapati, Anitha
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> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Support for new target emulator
> 
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:50:03PM +0200, Boyapati, Anitha wrote:
> > We have a proposal to add support for AVR32 target emulation in Qemu.
> 
> I've been working on and off on AVR32 target support for a little while
> now.  It's still far from being complete or mergeable, but enough of the
> architecture has been implemented to boot a minimal Linux kernel in
> system emulation and run busybox in linux-user emulation.
> 

That's great!

> I've put up the current source at http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/avr32.git,
> and a small README and some prebuilt kernel and busybox binaries to play
> with at http://rab.in/qemu/avr32/.
> 
> Current status and a TODO list are below.  Have a look.  I still hope to
> complete this and get it merged at some point, but you're welcome to
> beat me to it.  

Sure. I am running around the patches from the repo. On a quick note, UC3 
support is currently a top priority (yes, than AP7). The idea is to first get 
the basic AVR32 emulator up and run a GCC regression test suite.
 
>If you (or anyone else) decide to work off this, I'd
> be happy to take patches or give you push access to the repo.
>

Thanks indeed. It is a pleasant surprise that support for QEMU AVR32 is going 
on. I shall get back to the details of work done shortly and Yes, I am willing 
to work on this.


Anitha