Re: Testing boot loaders
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:57:15AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Yes, I agree. What I don't know yet is whether there's a comparatively
> straightforward way to copy the loader (plus its header etc.) into the
> appropriate area of Qemu's address space and then transfer to it. Ideally
> after that there would be enough startup messages to indicate that the
> kernel was running, even if there wasn't emulated framebuffer hardware.
>
> I think that the latest Qemu might have MX50 support, but at this stage it's
> the initial boot that's interesting.
Hmm, all I had seen was MX25. Looking at the git tree I see 25, 31 and 6,
but no 5x.
u-boot code would not be likely to do much for you if qemu doesn't
emulate the machine u-boot was compiled for. I have no idea how hard
adding a new machine to qemu would be.
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Len Sorensen
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