Hello, The qemu-native can boot a lot of machines, but oe-core's runqemu can only boot a few of them which are hardcoded into runqemu. I'd like to change it little to make it drop the hardcode and can boot more machines. Here are some basic thoughts, please feel free to give your comments.
runqemu is a helpful script which can help us boot images easily, but it has a lot of hard code for machine + args. I'd like to remove these from runqemu, and make it as a frame. The logical is that, who knows clearly about whether qemu can boot the machine and how to boot it (args), the answer is the machine/bsp developer, so we can: * Add a var like QEMU_SUPPORTED = "yes/no" in the bsp conf file (default to no) * Add a var like QEMU_BOOT_ARGS = "foo" if there are special args. * Let do_rootfs or do_image_foo write data such as QEMU_BOOT_ARGS to DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE/runqemu/ or tmp/deploy/images/runqemu/, we can treat the "runqemu/" dir as a database, and anything we need there, for example, efi/pcbios, root args, and so on. We won't miss anything since all the images which can be boot by runqemu are built by oe-core. * Then we can easily add supported machine to runqemu from the bsp itself without change runqemu. I will start working on it if there is no objections, and make sure it won't break any current supported machines. -- Thanks Robert -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
