[oe] Understanding what qemuppc emulates and getting it to emulate a ppc440 CPU

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 17:01:20 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>      I'd like some help understanding what qemuppc emulates, while building the using yocto core-image-sato.
>
> I've originally built my yocto images for a virtex5 machine, and would like to test it on an emulator. The Virtex-5 FXT processor is an FPGA which contains an embedded  PowerPC440 CPU
>
> Now if I specify machine=qemuppc, wouldn't that just be generic PowerPC CPU?
>
> There are so many ppc CPU variants, like ppc405, ppc440, ppc603e, etc.
>
> Can the yocto build environment be modified so that the qemuppc emulator emulates at least the ppc440 CPU subset?


default emulation is using mac99 I think which is ppc7xx IIRC
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson
>
>
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