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El mié., 6 nov. 2019 16:04, Esteban Bosse <estebanbosse@gmail.com> escribió:

> Hello!
>
> Some months ago I started to work trying to port the Beaglebone support
> from the old qemu-linaro fork to the new QEMU mainstream.
>
> During my work I found that the Beaglebone have an OMAP3 mpu this mpu has
> very strong relation with the OMAP2 and OMAP1 in qemu, they implement a lot
> of functions in common.
>
> Then I understood that the omap1 and omap2 don't implement things like QOM
> and needs a lot of work to upgrade it, at the same time they are some
> boards like: omap1_sx, palm, nseries that implement this mpus.
>
> Looking the datasheet of the omap1 I realized that it's an very old device
> and some questions like "make sense work with this old device?" comes to my
> mind.
>
> When I went to the KVM Forum the last week I talked with some of you, and
> you help my with different ideas and proposal to make this task, but I
> can't see the right way to make this work because it is a lot of work.
>
> My motivation is learn more about embedded devices, architecture, kernel,
> etc. and of course contribute to the community.
>
> I would love to hear your opinions about this 3 related devices with they
> respected boards.
>
> Maybe someone is interested to work with me.
> I dream to make this work beautiful (like the musca board with the armsse
> and armv7m modules) with a good variety of tests. And in the same time I
> would like to write some documentation about the process with the final
> idea to "make an easier way for new contributors".
>
> If someone want to work with me in this task, should know that I don't
> have to much experience and I'm doing this job in my free time (this means
> that I work only in my free time).
>
> I appreciate any kind of comment or advice.
>
> Thanks for your time ;)
> EstebanB
>