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

[Nathan Rossi]

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Alistair Francis
<alistair.francis at xilinx.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Alistair Francis
> <alistair.francis at xilinx.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:10 AM, Peter Crosthwaite
>> <crosthwaitepeter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Nathan Rossi <nathan at nathanrossi.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 2:54 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.
>>>>
>>>> Ah ok, so in the future QEMU will have models for both the EP108 and
>>>> the ZCU102 boards. In that case I don't actually see a need for a
>>>> 'qemuzynqmp' machine, since the ep108-zynqmp already provides the
>>>> setup for QEMU. The same can be done for the zcu102-zynqmp board, this
>>>> would also make it easier to maintain consistency (aka changes only
>>>> need to be made to the zcu102-zynqmp machine).
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1, qemuzynq as well as the "zynq" machine model in upstream QEMU are
>>> legacy convention that we should replace with concrete boards going
>>> forward.
>>
>> Ok, I'll look into adding a ZCU102 machine similar to what we do for the EP108.
>
> How can I run the EP108 on QEMU? I can't find how I can start QEMU with Yocto.

There is no runqemu support though the ep108 machine is setup to build
qemu-native for use. But there was a guide created back when first
adding zynqmp, essentially it is manually running QEMU with the
correct args. http://www.wiki.xilinx.com/Yocto+for+zynqmp

Regards,
Nathan

>
> Thanks,
>
> Alistair
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alistair