[OE-core] [oe-core] QEMU with ARM Cortex A9 with hard float configuration - Kernel panic

[Elvis Dowson]

On Aug 29, 2013, at 10:53 PM, <rewitt at declaratino.com> wrote:

> I actually set up a build to get a vexpress-a15 booting in qemu with
> neon support. However, I didn't use the yocto kernel and just pointed at
> my own defconfig and kernel version 3.10.7. If it would be helpful for
> you, I could put my changes up on github.
> 
> The weirdest thing was if I just used the defconfig that is in the
> kernel for vexpress it wouldn't boot, I had to tweak it a bit.

This is the thing, I was using this as an excuse to learn linux-yocto
kernel. I actually put off using linux-yocto for a while, and tended
to use the official linux kernel, or vendor specific kernels (Xilinx,
TI Arago, Freescale, etc) for actual target devices.

If you could share your defconfig, I'll try it with the standard
linux kernel.

I'm doing this to get the process of using Yocto to build a representative
QEMU emulator, and then using LaunchPad and Soyuz locally to
build Ubuntu on a virtual machine, rather than just re-use the official
Ubuntu binary packages. This way, I have more control over the 
toolchain, and options, rather than use the existing armel or armhf
machine configurations supplied by Debian/Ubuntu.

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson