Andrew recently committed PXA270 ARM processor support and an emulated ‘PXA270-based Clamshell PDA platform’ device (with NAND, SD Card, touchscreen, audio etc supported) to QEmu, the open source machine emulator and virtualizer. This provides full simulation of a modern ARM platform on a desktop x86 machine.

Its fantastic stuff this is finally upstream and should be a great aid to embedded Linux developers. Together with continued work on OpenMoko Neo1973 emulation (and upstreaming that), we are hoping to soon look at speedups, saving (and then restoring) state snapshots on ARM and even better Poky integration for developers. Watch this space.