Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] hw/arm/aspeed: Add fby35 machine type

[Cédric Le Goater]

> > > Have you considered extending the emulation to include a AST1030 SoC
> > > in a larger machine ?
> > >
> > > The AST1030 SoC is merged and I think that QEMU could run a cortex-m4
> > > CPU and a A7 CPU. A + R CPUs is supported (Xilinx boards).
> >
> > As a matter of fact yes! I tested booting our OpenBIC Zephyr kernel last week 
> > with the 1030, that worked. I also used the experimental i2c multi-master 
> > patches from Klaus to make a i2c-netdev device that connects two separate QEMU 
> > instances through a socket and sends their i2c messages back and forth. I was 
> > able to test a basic MCTP transaction.
> >
> > I’m hoping to help however possible with merging Klaus’s changes, and then 
> > propose the i2c-netdev thing too.
>
> Oh wait a minute: You mean I could include both SoC’s in one machine? 

Yes. We would need to extend the Aspeed machines to instantiate
2 different SoCs (or more). This is something quite interesting
to design.

> Oh that’s a good idea actually. Maybe I’ll look into that as an alternative to 
> the socket thing. Still, it might be something useful to submit anyways.

Yes. Please do.

Thanks,

C.