On 28 January 2011 17:00, Comicinker <comicin...@gmx.de> wrote: > I want to boot a embedded linux environment in qemu, namely > xxsvideo [1]. It is for an arm based fujitsu development board [2].
I'm afraid there is no support in qemu for this hardware. In general ARM based boards are all very different from one another -- they have different devices, memory is in different places and they have different CPUs. You typically have to build a kernel configured to support the specific device you are using, and that kernel will then not run on any other hardware. (This is different from x86, where PCs are sufficiently similar that a generic x86 kernel will work on all of them.) > I tried to boot the Kernel with the following command: > > qemu-system-arm -kernel uImage-xxsvideo-jadeevalkit-0.8.5.bin -M integratorcp > -nographic This fails because you've tried to boot an image for one ARM board (XXSvideo) on a model of a completely different board (Integrator CP). This is as unlikely to work as if you took a real hardware Integrator and tried to run your image on it. > Do I have to patch qemu to support a new machine? Yes, you would have to implement support for this board, and also implement models of any devices which qemu doesn't already have (probably most of them). In particular if you are interested in a working model of the graphics chipset then this is a very large amount of work and might even be impossible if the chipset vendor doesn't release enough documentation on it. As a rough guide, the code to implement (most of) the OMAP3 chipset support in qemu is about 29,000 lines of code. Sorry I don't have a more encouraging answer. -- PMM
