From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:16:35 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: add qemu, cross-compiler and gdb install to build workflow prerequisites
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add qemu, cross-compiler and gdb install to build workflow prerequisites
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diff --git a/HDL_workflow.mdwn b/HDL_workflow.mdwn
index bfaa2cc2c..ab97903b2 100644
--- a/HDL_workflow.mdwn
+++ b/HDL_workflow.mdwn
@@ -358,6 +358,28 @@ You can test your installation by doing the following:
 
 It should print out `Posit8(1.3125)`
 
+## qemu, cross-compilers, gdb
+
+As we are doing POWER ISA, POWER ISA compilers, toolchains and
+emulators are required.
+
+Install powerpc64 gcc:
+
+    apt-get install gcc-9-powerpc64-linux-gnu
+
+Install qemu:
+
+    apt-get install qemu-system-ppc
+
+Install gdb from source.  Obtain the latest tarball, unpack it, then:
+
+    cd gdb-9.1 (or other location)
+    mkdir build
+    cd build
+     ../configure --srcdir=.. --host=x86_64-linux --target=powerpc64-linux-gnu
+    make -j16
+    make install
+
 ## Coriolis2
 
 See [[coriolis2]] page, for those people doing layout work.