Simulate SD card in software
a project by algraf
Updated almost 5 years ago. 14 hacker ♥️.

To make OpenQA work with real ARM devices, we need to control

  • Reset
  • HDMI
  • USB keyboard / tablet
  • SD card

Reset can be done using GPIO. HDMI can be done with a USB HDMI grabber. USB keyboard/tablet can be emulated via USB OTG.

That leaves only SD card simulation to be implemented to automatically verify whether our current openSUSE images still work on ARM development systems.

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arm qemu arm64 aarch64 sd openqa raspberrypi

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Hack Week 14 Hack Week 16

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    • Comments

    • algraf
      about 7 years ago by algraf | Reply

      For Hackweek 16, let's make the FPGA+Verilog iteration of it work for real ;)

    • lnussel
      about 7 years ago by lnussel | Reply

      do you know an affordable, lossless USB HDMI grabber?

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