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Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 02:59:31 -0500
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] MIPS Malta DT Conversion
From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
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On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Paul Burton <paul.burton@imgtec.com> wrote:
> This series begins converting the MIPS Malta board to use device tree,
> which is done with a few goals in mind:
>
>   - To modernise the Malta board support, providing a cleaner example to
>     people referencing it when bringing up new boards and reducing the
>     amount of code they need to write.
>
>   - To make the code at the board level more generic with the eventual
>     aim of sharing it between multiple boards & allowing for
>     multi-platform kernel binaries. Although this series doesn't result
>     in the kernel reaching those goals, it is a step in that direction.
>
>   - To result in a more maintainable kernel through a combination of the
>     above.

How would I go about testing this under qemu?

(Especially the "more than 256 megs ram" part. :)

Rob
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