[meta-xilinx] [PATCH v1] qemuzynmp: Add the qemuzynqmp machine

[Alistair Francis]

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Alistair Francis
<alistair.francis at xilinx.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:35 AM, Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 6:11 AM, Alistair Francis
>> <alistair.francis at xilinx.com> wrote:
>>> Add the qemuzynqmp machine based on the physical ZCU02 revB board.
>>
>> Hi Alistair,
>>
>> So I am a little confused, is this machine supposed to emulate the
>> ep108 (the args to QEMU appear to be for the ep108) or the zcu102? or
>> are both able to be emulated?
>
> Hey Nathan,
>
> This machine is supposed to be emulating the ZCU102.
>
> At the moment we only have the EP108 in upstream QEMU. It isn't worth
> adding a ZCU102 model upstream yet as at the moment we don't have
> enough modeled upstream to notice any differences between the boards.
>
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis at xilinx.com>
>>> ---
>>> This patch relies on QEMU ZynqMP support in the Yocto scripts.
>>> I am sending a patch for that as well.
>>
>> Also in regards to adding the qemu config to oe-core/runqemu. It might
>> also be worth looking into a recent RFC that was posted for oe-core
>> (http://patchwork.openembedded.org/patch/122049/).
>
> Hmm... interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.
>
> I don't follow the OE-core mailing list (until yesterday) do you know
> if that series is gaining traction?

I just reached out to him to let him know that I am happy to help
convert the new ZynqMP QEMU machine to his new style.

Ideally we can get the machine in before his refactoring and then
update it again with the refactoring.

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> Thanks,
>
> Alistair
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nathan