On 12 May 2012 22:12, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 01:41:43PM -0700, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> On 05/11/2012 01:04 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >Has anyone tried to debug our Fedora/arm kernels under qemu-system-arm?
> >(In this case, the host is also arm, but I don't think that matters.)
>
> Richard,
>
> FYI, we as of a few hours ago have nearly-official F17-beta images
> for versatile express on the following page:
>
>
http://scotland.proximity.on.ca/arm-nightlies/
>
> There's a link for vexpress and vexpress+x rootfs images. A second
> link provides a kernel, initramfs, and script for starting qemu.
> Note that vexpress is much faster than versatile and allows more ram
> (1GB). Recommend you try this out!
So one issue appears to be lack of PCI support (according to Linaro's
notes:
https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuVersatileExpress).
Unfortunately all of the virtio hardware is PCI-based, so it doesn't
seem like this is going to work for the virt tools :-(
Hi Richard. The plan is to use virtio-mmio and use Device Tree to set
where the virtio devices are. virtio-mmio is in the mainline kernel
and in the queue for QEMU.
-- Michael