Re: [Qemu-devel] ARM questions..

[Carl Holtje ;021;vcsg6;]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Paul Brook wrote:

> On Thursday 17 February 2005 13:58, Carl Holtje ;021;vcsg6; wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > The qemu arm emulation only supports linux user-mode emulation.
> > > This means it runs arm-linux binaries unmodified. In addition to the
> > > binary itself you will need any shared libraries it requires.
> >
> > My target hardware is ARM, and I'm interested in running x86 binaries. I'm
> > not sure I conveyed this in my original post -- does your reply still
> > apply (copy over libraries and go)?
>
> Oh, I see. I thought you meant the other way around.
> In that case qemu should[1] work the same as on any other host. ie. you can
> either use the user emulation as described above, or use the softmmu
> emulation to emulate a whole PC.
>
> [1] I don't think arm hosts get as much testing as some others, so there may
> be more bugs than say x86 or ppc hosts.

Does "whole PC" emulation work[1] on the ARM? That is to say that the BIOS
image sits on the to-be-emulated side, so the whole PC is being emulated
through qemu, not just the binaries?

Thanks!

Carl