Re: evbarm-earmv6hf in qemu

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> This is a really interesting approach, thanks! :) Basically, there is no real ARMv6 hardware that boots from EFI, but the „virt“ machine type can be made to do exactly that. I’ll give it a try!

Ya, that is pretty much exactly what it is.

> I also just remembered that I do in fact have a RPi2 lying around somewhere, maybe that would work in terms of real hardware.

Yes, a RPI2 and RPI3 can be made to work as a earmv6hf device.  You have
to use a kernel that has been built like I described, that is, the
kernel is actually a v7 kernel, but you use the v6 tool chain to build
it.  This *IS* done in the tree and is what the RPI2 kernel is all
about, which works on a RPI2 and RPI3.


However...

You might find that your virtual machine version performs better than
the real hardware ...  especially if the VM is running on very fast
hardware using fast storage ...  you can also give it a lot more memory,
and in fact, the max that a 32 bit system can have, which may be a
configuration that does not exist on real hardware.  I have found that
when building packages, more CPUs may not help much, but more memory is
a lot of help.

> — 
> Benny




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