[PATCH 0/3] m68k: Add support for QEMU virt machine
Kuan-Wei Chiu
visitorckw at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 17:39:56 CET 2025
Hi Tom,
On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 01:00:59PM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 06:52:49PM +0000, Kuan-Wei Chiu wrote:
> > Add support for the QEMU 'virt' machine on the m68k architecture. The
> > QEMU virt machine models a generic system based on the Motorola 68040
> > CPU and utilizes Goldfish virtual peripherals.
> >
> > Currently, U-Boot's m68k architecture support focuses on ColdFire
> > variants. Expand this to include the classic M680x0 architecture,
> > implementing the necessary exception vectors, startup code, and a
> > bootinfo parser compatible with the QEMU interface. A driver for the
> > Goldfish TTY is also added to enable serial console output.
> >
> > The implementation has been verified on QEMU targeting the M68040 CPU,
> > confirming successful hardware initialization and boot to the U-Boot
> > command shell.
> >
> > Kuan-Wei Chiu (3):
> > serial: Add Goldfish TTY driver
> > m68k: Add support for M68040 CPU
> > board: Add QEMU m68k virt board support
>
> Well this is neat. The next step for v2 is to update both .gitlab-ci.yml
> and .azure-pipeslines.yml to run this target in the QEMU sections by
> where we already test another m68k platform via QEMU.
Thanks for pointing this out. :)
I'll take a look at those CI files.
I'm not sure how to verify the CI config changes locally, but I'll try.
Regards,
Kuan-Wei
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