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Re: [Qemu-devel] PowerPC 440 support


From: Hollis Blanchard
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PowerPC 440 support
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:37:59 -0500

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:52 AM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
On 6/15/09, Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> wrote:
> KVM PPC execution doesn't use firmware today. Instead we create the device
> tree in qemu itself, stuff it into guest memory, and point a guest register
> at it on entry. This was just a shortcut/hack, because we didn't have enough
> time to enable both Linux and uboot.
>
> I agree that the best way to do things long-term is to run u-boot inside the
> guest environment. That will likely require improvements to qemu's device
> emulation, and also we'll probably need to work out a way for qemu to pass
> parameters (e.g. memory size) to u-boot. IMHO, the best approach there would
> be to have u-boot interpret a device tree from qemu, then modify it and pass
> it on to the kernel. Obviously that will require u-boot work.

I'm not familiar with u-boot, could we use OpenBIOS instead? Is u-boot
used on real hardware?

Yes, u-boot is used on a wide variety of real hardware. Open Firmware is almost unheard-of in embedded systems.

-Hollis

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