Re: [Qemu-ppc] VxWorks 5.5.1 on qemu powerpc

[Alexander Graf]

On 04/01/2014 12:27 PM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> On 04/01/2014 12:07 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > On 04/01/2014 11:54 AM, Fabien Chouteau wrote:
> > > Hi Maxime, Alex,
> > >
> > > On 04/01/2014 11:16 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > > > On 04/01/2014 11:04 AM, FOURNIER Maxime wrote:
> > > > > Did someone managed to make this OS boot on qemu-powerpc ?
> > > > Yes, Fabien Chouteau had VxWorks running on e500 IIRC.
> > > We actually have many products for vxWorks now, vxWorks6 and
> > > vxworks6-cert on ppc604 and e500v2, vx653 on e500v2. No vxworks5 for the
> > > moment...
> > >
> > > > > Did we miss something or did we make wrong assumptions ?
> > >   From experience I can tell you that vxWorks will not work out of the box
> > > on QEMU. First because QEMU doesn't emulate the boards supported by
> > > vxWorks, and also because QEMU is focused on Linux.
> > >
> > > There's different way to deal with this, you can either create a custom
> > > BSP in vxWorks that support one of QEMU's board, or you can support a
> > > new board in QEMU (that's what we do).
> > Hrm, any plans to move these upstream? :)
> Yes of course, we want them upstream eventually. During the last few
> years you've seen some of our patches (booke timers and eTSEC for
> examples). For boards it think it's not that easy, what would you say
> about a complete board that you cannot test because only vxWorks runs on
> it?

As long as I have a (vxworks) image I can verify with that it still 
works that's a perfectly desirable thing to have.


Alex