Looking for trick on Linaro QEMU emulating a BeagleXM to activate networking

[Riku Voipio]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 01:45:40PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 5 March 2011 13:22, Jon Diekema <jon.diekema at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the trick to get the networking active with the Linaro QEMU
> > emulating a beaglexm running Linaro Alpha 3?  ifconfig -a only shows the
> > loopback interface.
 
> Networking doesn't work, because the USB controller isn't modelled.
> This is https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+bug/656530

qemu has smc91c111 ethernet wired into beagle/beagle-xm machines at GPMC
chip select #1.. you can get it to work by patching the kernel to to
initialize smc91x module there.

For usb, musb at least used to work with older kernels. haven't tried for a
while.

Riku