On 27 January 2015 at 20:46, Dominic Chen d.c.ddcc@gmail.com wrote:

I have a question about the status of overo support in qemu-linaro vs upstream qemu; from a quick look on the Git commits for qemu-linaro, most things seemed to have been ported back upstream into qemu as of v2.0.0, although there does appear to be some recent new commits. However, I'm looking for overo board support, and although I see that OMAP3 chip support has been merged upstream, there aren't any board configuration files for overo.

Actually, none of the OMAP3 support has been merged into upstream QEMU. There's just too much cleanup work required and it doesn't seem like it would be all that useful to many people. (It would probably be a few months work.)

Additionally, I don't see any recent binary packages available for qemu-linaro. The qemu-linaro packages on the Ubuntu PPA haven't been built for almost a year now, and the releases.linaro.org page doesn't seem to have recent qemu-linaro builds either.

Also true. I have to some extent been deliberately not doing binary builds (a) in order to see if anybody noticed [you're the first] and (b) because there's not much point: if you want the OMAP3 support then the old builds will work fine, and if you don't then upstream QEMU is in all other ways much better.

thanks -- PMM