Re: [Qemu-devel] Port Qemu to another ARM platform

[Christian Roepke]

Hello,

> > Hi,
> >
> > I consider to port qemu to another ARM platform so that I have a software
> > simulator for my microcontroller board. There is an ARM926EJ-S core on my
> > board which is backwards compatible from ARM7. Hence I must not port the
> > cpu core only the interrupt controller, timer, uart, ... I hope that such a
> > software simulator is good for testing my software/OS - I am currently
> > porting the L4 micro-kernel (http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/) to my board.
> >
> > Is there a documents available which decribes how to port qemu to another
> > ARM platform or something similar?
> 
> Not really. However qemu already supports a few different Arm boards, so 
> looking at the source should tell you most of what you need to know.

But the Integrator port is the only ARM926EJ-S port, right? Is everythink
platform specific implemented in ./hw/integratorcp.c ?

If my software works on qemu, does it work on a real Integrator board, too? Or
are there some differences?

Thanks,
Hans