Developing for arm hardware with qemu

If you want to do likewise, check out these instructions (including a custom kernel) for getting set up. Note that either because of recent SCSI patches to the qemu source, or because I'm compiling on OSX, the images on that page got stuck in a scsi reset loop during booting. Since I didn't want scsi anyway, I simply took the scsi hardware emulation out of the linked modules (manually removed lsi53c895a.o and added ide.o piix_pci.o in the Makefile) and commented out the scsi initialisation and added ide init in the versatile platform emulation (versatilepb.c):

*** versatilepb.c	24 Sep 2006 03:40:58 +1000	1.6
--- versatilepb.c	14 Dec 2006 01:02:28 +1100	
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*** 10,15 ****
--- 10,22 ----
  #include "vl.h"
  #include "arm_pic.h"
  
+ 
+ /* ide support */
+ static const int ide_iobase[2] = { 0x1f0, 0x170 };
+ static const int ide_iobase2[2] = { 0x3f6, 0x376 };
+ static const int ide_irq[2] = { 14, 15 };
+ 
+ 
  /* Primary interrupt controller.  */
  
  typedef struct vpb_sic_state
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*** 164,169 ****
--- 171,177 ----
      NICInfo *nd;
      int n;
      int done_smc = 0;
+     int piix3_devfn = -1;
  
      env = cpu_init();
      cpu_arm_set_model(env, ARM_CPUID_ARM926);
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*** 194,205 ****
--- 202,219 ----
      if (usb_enabled) {
          usb_ohci_init(pci_bus, 3, -1);
      }
+ /* disable scsi hardware */
+ /*
      scsi_hba = lsi_scsi_init(pci_bus, -1);
      for (n = 0; n < MAX_DISKS; n++) {
          if (bs_table[n]) {
              lsi_scsi_attach(scsi_hba, bs_table[n], n);
          }
      }
+ */
+     piix3_devfn = piix3_init(pci_bus);
+     pci_piix3_ide_init(pci_bus, bs_table, piix3_devfn + 1);
+ 
  
      pl011_init(0x101f1000, pic, 12, serial_hds[0]);
      pl011_init(0x101f2000, pic, 13, serial_hds[1]);