Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/3] hw/arm: Add 'virt' platform

[Peter Maydell]

On 12 September 2013 11:17, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> This patch series adds a 'virt' platform which uses the
> kernel's mach-virt (fully device-tree driven) support
> to create a simple minimalist platform intended for
> use for KVM VM guests.
>
> The major change here is that I've added a PL011 UART.
>
> Sample command line:
>
>  qemu-system-arm -machine type=virt -display none \
>   -kernel zImage \
>   -append 'root=/dev/vda rw console=ttyAMA0 rootwait'
>   -cpu cortex-a15 \
>   -device virtio-blk-device,drive=foo \
>   -drive if=none,file=arm-wheezy.img,id=foo \
>   -m 2048 -serial stdio
>
> Note that there is no earlyprintk via the PL011 because
> there's no defined device tree binding for "hey, here
> is your earlyprintk UART".

Last call: anybody got any comments on mach-virt?
Otherwise I'm planning to put it into a pull request
and it'll go into qemu 1.7 as an "experimental" status
platform.

-- PMM