[PATCH] Add basic support from ARM Versatile/PB

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Mon Oct 11 10:48:36 EDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 04:41:29PM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 23:15 Sun 10 Oct     , Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Zaytsev <alexey.zaytsev at gmail.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > Hi.
> > 
> > It seems that barebox does not run on any ARM machines provided
> > by QEMU. This patch adds basic Versatile/PB support. It is far from
> > being complete and has not been tested on real hardware, but
> > seems to work fine in QEMU.
> > 
> > Please notice, that you need to set CONFIG_VERSATILE_SMC91C111
> > in order to have networking in QEMU, as it does not provide
> > smc91x found on the real hardware.
> > 
> > For a queck test, run:
> > 
> > 	qemu-system-arm -kernel barebox.bin -M versatilepb -cpu arm926 -nographic -m 64 -net nic,model=smc91c111 -net user
> this must be in a doc
> 
> please use defaultenv and enable more functionnability
> 
> as we can use it as ref board for emulation
> > 
> > 
> > +
> > +config BOARDINFO
> > +	default "ARM Versatile/PB (ARM926EJ-S)"
> > +endif
> > +
> > +config VERSATILE_SMC91C111
> > +	bool "Use smc91c111 instead of smc91x (for QEMU)"
> > +	default 0
> ??
> > +	help
> > +	 Enable this option to run barebox inside qemu.
> > +	 Real versatile boards are equipped with smc911x,
> > +	 but qemu only provides smc91111, which is a bit different.
> it will be beter to modify the ressources depending on the drivers enabled

I think it's ok the way Alexey did this. It's a good place to document
that we need two different ethernet drivers depending on native/qemu
compilation.

Sascha

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