i'm teaching some embedded linux next week and, while i will have physical boards for the students to play with, i'd also like to demonstrate basic u-boot within a QEMU session as far as that's practical.
the boards themselves will be powerpc-based lite5200 (icecube) systems all currently populated with u-boot (some old versions, some newer) so certainly they'll have u-boot on the systems when the time comes to start running them. regarding the QEMU session, i get the impression that QEMU and powerpc still have problems but, if it's a QEMU session, i'm free to choose the architecture so picking ARM is probably a good bet. i found a couple useful articles online: http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/u-boot-for-arm-on-qemu/ http://balau82.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/booting-linux-with-u-boot-on-qemu-arm/ so i can use them as a starting point, but both of them are well over a year old so i'm wondering if there's a more recent, canonical online explanation of emulating u-boot in a QEMU session just for demo purposes, and at what point the emulation breaks down given the lack of actual underlying hardware. thanks for any pointers. i've never tried u-boot in a QEMU session before; hence the fairly intro-level request for help. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
