ARM System emulator

Use the executable qemu-system-arm to simulate a ARM machine. The ARM Integrator/CP board is emulated with the following devices:

  • ARM926E, ARM1026E, ARM946E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU
  • Two PL011 UARTs
  • SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter
  • PL110 LCD controller
  • PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
  • PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.

The ARM Versatile baseboard is emulated with the following devices:

  • ARM926E, ARM1136 or Cortex-A8 CPU
  • PL190 Vectored Interrupt Controller
  • Four PL011 UARTs
  • SMC 91c111 Ethernet adapter
  • PL110 LCD controller
  • PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse.
  • PCI host bridge. Note the emulated PCI bridge only provides access to PCI memory space. It does not provide access to PCI IO space. This means some devices (eg. ne2k_pci NIC) are not usable, and others (eg. rtl8139 NIC) are only usable when the guest drivers use the memory mapped control registers.
  • PCI OHCI USB controller.
  • LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM devices.
  • PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.

Several variants of the ARM RealView baseboard are emulated, including the EB, PB-A8 and PBX-A9. Due to interactions with the bootloader, only certain Linux kernel configurations work out of the box on these boards.

Kernels for the PB-A8 board should have CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET enabled in the kernel, and expect 512M RAM. Kernels for The PBX-A9 board should have CONFIG_SPARSEMEM enabled, CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET disabled and expect 1024M RAM.

The following devices are emulated:

  • ARM926E, ARM1136, ARM11MPCore, Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU
  • ARM AMBA Generic/Distributed Interrupt Controller
  • Four PL011 UARTs
  • SMC 91c111 or SMSC LAN9118 Ethernet adapter
  • PL110 LCD controller
  • PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse
  • PCI host bridge
  • PCI OHCI USB controller
  • LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM devices
  • PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.

The XScale-based clamshell PDA models (“Spitz”, “Akita”, “Borzoi” and “Terrier”) emulation includes the following peripherals:

  • Intel PXA270 System-on-chip (ARM V5TE core)
  • NAND Flash memory
  • IBM/Hitachi DSCM microdrive in a PXA PCMCIA slot - not in “Akita”
  • On-chip OHCI USB controller
  • On-chip LCD controller
  • On-chip Real Time Clock
  • TI ADS7846 touchscreen controller on SSP bus
  • Maxim MAX1111 analog-digital converter on I2C bus
  • GPIO-connected keyboard controller and LEDs
  • Secure Digital card connected to PXA MMC/SD host
  • Three on-chip UARTs
  • WM8750 audio CODEC on I2C and I2S busses

The Palm Tungsten|E PDA (codename “Cheetah”) emulation includes the following elements:

  • Texas Instruments OMAP310 System-on-chip (ARM 925T core)
  • ROM and RAM memories (ROM firmware image can be loaded with -option-rom)
  • On-chip LCD controller
  • On-chip Real Time Clock
  • TI TSC2102i touchscreen controller / analog-digital converter / Audio CODEC, connected through MicroWire and I2S busses
  • GPIO-connected matrix keypad
  • Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
  • Three on-chip UARTs

Nokia N800 and N810 internet tablets (known also as RX-34 and RX-44 / 48) emulation supports the following elements:

  • Texas Instruments OMAP2420 System-on-chip (ARM 1136 core)
  • RAM and non-volatile OneNAND Flash memories
  • Display connected to EPSON remote framebuffer chip and OMAP on-chip display controller and a LS041y3 MIPI DBI-C controller
  • TI TSC2301 (in N800) and TI TSC2005 (in N810) touchscreen controllers driven through SPI bus
  • National Semiconductor LM8323-controlled qwerty keyboard driven through I2C bus
  • Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
  • Three OMAP on-chip UARTs and on-chip STI debugging console
  • Mentor Graphics “Inventra” dual-role USB controller embedded in a TI TUSB6010 chip - only USB host mode is supported
  • TI TMP105 temperature sensor driven through I2C bus
  • TI TWL92230C power management companion with an RTC on I2C bus
  • Nokia RETU and TAHVO multi-purpose chips with an RTC, connected through CBUS

The Luminary Micro Stellaris LM3S811EVB emulation includes the following devices:

  • Cortex-M3 CPU core.
  • 64k Flash and 8k SRAM.
  • Timers, UARTs, ADC and I2C interface.
  • OSRAM Pictiva 96x16 OLED with SSD0303 controller on I2C bus.

The Luminary Micro Stellaris LM3S6965EVB emulation includes the following devices:

  • Cortex-M3 CPU core.
  • 256k Flash and 64k SRAM.
  • Timers, UARTs, ADC, I2C and SSI interfaces.
  • OSRAM Pictiva 128x64 OLED with SSD0323 controller connected via SSI.

The Freecom MusicPal internet radio emulation includes the following elements:

  • Marvell MV88W8618 ARM core.
  • 32 MB RAM, 256 KB SRAM, 8 MB flash.
  • Up to 2 16550 UARTs
  • MV88W8xx8 Ethernet controller
  • MV88W8618 audio controller, WM8750 CODEC and mixer
  • 128x64 display with brightness control
  • 2 buttons, 2 navigation wheels with button function

The Siemens SX1 models v1 and v2 (default) basic emulation. The emulation includes the following elements:

  • Texas Instruments OMAP310 System-on-chip (ARM 925T core)
  • ROM and RAM memories (ROM firmware image can be loaded with -pflash) V1 1 Flash of 16MB and 1 Flash of 8MB V2 1 Flash of 32MB
  • On-chip LCD controller
  • On-chip Real Time Clock
  • Secure Digital card connected to OMAP MMC/SD host
  • Three on-chip UARTs

A Linux 2.6 test image is available on the QEMU web site. More information is available in the QEMU mailing-list archive.