| .. _MIPS-System-emulator: |
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| MIPS System emulator |
| -------------------- |
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| Four executables cover simulation of 32 and 64-bit MIPS systems in both |
| endian options, ``qemu-system-mips``, ``qemu-system-mipsel`` |
| ``qemu-system-mips64`` and ``qemu-system-mips64el``. Five different |
| machine types are emulated: |
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| - A generic ISA PC-like machine \"mips\" |
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| - The MIPS Malta prototype board \"malta\" |
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| - An ACER Pica \"pica61\". This machine needs the 64-bit emulator. |
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| - MIPS emulator pseudo board \"mipssim\" |
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| - A MIPS Magnum R4000 machine \"magnum\". This machine needs the |
| 64-bit emulator. |
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| The generic emulation is supported by Debian 'Etch' and is able to |
| install Debian into a virtual disk image. The following devices are |
| emulated: |
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| - A range of MIPS CPUs, default is the 24Kf |
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| - PC style serial port |
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| - PC style IDE disk |
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| - NE2000 network card |
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| The Malta emulation supports the following devices: |
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| - Core board with MIPS 24Kf CPU and Galileo system controller |
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| - PIIX4 PCI/USB/SMbus controller |
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| - The Multi-I/O chip's serial device |
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| - PCI network cards (PCnet32 and others) |
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| - Malta FPGA serial device |
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| - Cirrus (default) or any other PCI VGA graphics card |
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| The Boston board emulation supports the following devices: |
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| - Xilinx FPGA, which includes a PCIe root port and an UART |
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| - Intel EG20T PCH connects the I/O peripherals, but only the SATA bus |
| is emulated |
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| The ACER Pica emulation supports: |
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| - MIPS R4000 CPU |
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| - PC-style IRQ and DMA controllers |
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| - PC Keyboard |
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| - IDE controller |
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| The MIPS Magnum R4000 emulation supports: |
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| - MIPS R4000 CPU |
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| - PC-style IRQ controller |
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| - PC Keyboard |
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| - SCSI controller |
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| - G364 framebuffer |
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| The Fuloong 2E emulation supports: |
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| - Loongson 2E CPU |
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| - Bonito64 system controller as North Bridge |
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| - VT82C686 chipset as South Bridge |
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| - RTL8139D as a network card chipset |
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| The Loongson-3 virtual platform emulation supports: |
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| - Loongson 3A CPU |
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| - LIOINTC as interrupt controller |
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| - GPEX and virtio as peripheral devices |
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| - Both KVM and TCG supported |
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| The mipssim pseudo board emulation provides an environment similar to |
| what the proprietary MIPS emulator uses for running Linux. It supports: |
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| - A range of MIPS CPUs, default is the 24Kf |
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| - PC style serial port |
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| - MIPSnet network emulation |
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| .. include:: cpu-models-mips.rst.inc |
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| .. _nanoMIPS-System-emulator: |
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| nanoMIPS System emulator |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| Executable ``qemu-system-mipsel`` also covers simulation of 32-bit |
| nanoMIPS system in little endian mode: |
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| - nanoMIPS I7200 CPU |
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| Example of ``qemu-system-mipsel`` usage for nanoMIPS is shown below: |
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| Download ``<disk_image_file>`` from |
| https://mipsdistros.mips.com/LinuxDistro/nanomips/buildroot/index.html. |
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| Download ``<kernel_image_file>`` from |
| https://mipsdistros.mips.com/LinuxDistro/nanomips/kernels/v4.15.18-432-gb2eb9a8b07a1-20180627102142/index.html. |
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| Start system emulation of Malta board with nanoMIPS I7200 CPU:: |
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| qemu-system-mipsel -cpu I7200 -kernel <kernel_image_file> \ |
| -M malta -serial stdio -m <memory_size> -hda <disk_image_file> \ |
| -append "mem=256m@0x0 rw console=ttyS0 vga=cirrus vesa=0x111 root=/dev/sda" |
