On 29 May 2013 15:24, Erlon Cruz <sombra...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, this hardware we intend to emulate doesn't need to use > any specific SoC.
This doesn't make sense. If it's hardware it must be using *some* SoC or system board or PCI interface or similar. It doesn't just float around in a vacuum. > The only > requirement is that it must use an Arm Cortex A9 core. Is > the Cortex-A9 core fully implemented in QEMU? More or less, yes (we have some notable missing bits like TrustZone support but typically they are not a problem). > My first idea was to use the xilinx board (may realview-pbx-a9 > or vexpress-a9) because it already uses the Arm Cortex A9 > processor These are all actual models of actual hardware -- is the device you want to emulate present on the real boards? > but Im not sure if they supports graphical display. Do they? the realview and vexpress boards do. Don't know about xilinx. > Then, I thought that we could write an OMAP4 implementation > based on the already existing OMAP3 SoC An OMAP4 emulation would be a colossal undertaking (probably about 10,000 lines of code). It would be a project all by itself. > May be it would be possible to use OMAP3 just with a few > tweaks so we could pass a cortex-A9 in spite of the actual > cores, is that possible? No, because the OMAP3 is not an A9 SoC. (Also, the OMAP3 support is not yet in upstream QEMU). thanks -- PMM
