Re: [Qemu-devel] SMP for PReP architecture

[Eli Lewis]

> 

> Well, PReP is dead since the mid-90's, no [1]? :) I'd be surprised if 
> you could get recent hardware still supporting it. Plus, I don't think it 
> really makes all that much sense. PReP is basically a 90's x86 machine with 
> PPC CPU. Not exactly what you'd consider elegant design.
> 
> Why not go for something that has a bit wider architecture support and 
> multi-core support built in, like rtems?
> 
>   http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/BoardSupportPackageInformation
> 
> That would allow you to go with actual available hardware, like something 
> based 
> on FSL e500 or AMCC 44x cores. For e500, we even have SMP emulation support 
> in 
> QEMU.


Thank you
for your suggestion, but we need to use our modified version of POK.
Maybe
we can change the BSP of POK in order to support the MPC8544DS board. In QEmu, 
is the SMP emulation supported for all e500  or for the e500v2 only?
Eli