Hi Greg, On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 10:50 PM Greg Ungerer <g...@kernel.org> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > On 31/1/23 05:31, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 08:10:36PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > >> Hi Eero, > >> > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 8:02 PM Eero Tamminen <o...@helsinkinet.fi> wrote: > >>> On 30.1.2023 18.34, Tom Rini wrote: > >>>> That's great to hear. While I started my life on m68k machines, I never > >>>> did get Linux up on one. Do the coldfire platforms you have run U-Boot > >>>> today? If so, are they already supported upstream? One of my biggest > >>>> concerns about the architecture, in U-Boot, is that I've just not heard > >>>> of anyone using it in quite some time, and we don't have any emulated > >>>> platforms either (can it be done in QEMU? We have other plaforms in CI > >>>> via QEMU) so I worry it's not working. > >>> > >>> Qemu supports both m68k and ColdFire nowadays: > >>> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-m68k.html > >>> > >>> > >>> - Eero > >>> > >>> PS. For m68k there are also a lot of other emulators that emulate > >>> specific platforms. > >>> > >>> Aranym, 68040 Atari "clone", used a lot by Debian m68k port before Qemu > >>> got m68k support. > >>> > >>> WinAUE, 68000-68040 Amiga emulation. Unlike Aranym or Qemu, this > >>> emulates also CPU cache. > >>> > >>> Hatari, 68000-68040 Atari emulation (based on WinUAE CPU core). > >>> > >>> Previous, 68030 NeXT emulator (based on Hatari). > >> > >> But none of the platforms listed above boot using U-Boot, which is > >> what Tom is interested in... > >> > >> "qemu-system-m68k -machine help" lists a.o.: > >> > >> an5206 Arnewsh 5206 > >> mcf5208evb MCF5208EVB (default) > >> > >> U-Boot still contains include/configs/M5208EVBE.h, but there are no > >> actual users... > >> > >> Angelo: so support for amcore in qemu would be nice ;-) > > > > I did a little searching after sending and I see there's been some > > patches for mcf5208evb and U-Boot, in QEMU but the last message (2019) > > was that the CPU emulation wasn't quite complete enough. But yes, one > > way or another, it would be really great to get a virtualized platform > > in CI to prevent future breakage. > > FWIW the QEMU emulation of the m5208evb is good enough to run Linux. > I do a lot of kernel testing (and development!) using that. > Thanks for the info !
> Regards > Greg > Regards, angelo > -- Angelo Dureghello Timesys e. angelo.dureghe...@timesys.com
