Comments on: EP93xx fight continued…

By: Yury

Yury — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:11:12 +0000

Oh, thanks, I’ll try it

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:55:57 +0000

I do not think so. EP93xx emulation would require some developer time to write it.

You have to build for arm920t or arm926 (so any pxa/s3c/etc) to be able to use QEMU for testing.

Or you can spend 99€ on Sim.One board which uses EP9307.

By: Yury

Yury — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:38:00 +0000

Hi Marcin,

Is there a chance to emulate this board in Qemu? I'd like to have some linux distribution with custom kernel configuration to be run on EP9302, but don't have a board to test it. I've downloaded Angstrom but both vanilla qemu-arm and one of Poky distribution failed to boot it. First one just showed black screen when started and Poky's told that it is unsupported platform. So is there any info on how to start any linux distribution (with kernel 2.6) for EP93xx on qemu or how to make it by myself?

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:23:59 +0000

Jon: I already told you that I know that EP93xx have sick FPU. I also told what do I think about Freescale i.mx31 cpu.

I am doing that ep93xx stuff to improve it's support in OpenEmbedded and also to learn something new. Not everyday has to be spend with great working stuff.

By: Jon Smirl

Jon Smirl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:13:44 +0000

Freescale iMX353 is only $1-2 more. It is twice and fast and has 8x the FPU power. Why torture yourself with a broken FPU? I threw my ep93xx boards in the trash after a week of fighting with this.