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+Arm Realview boards (``realview-eb``, ``realview-eb-mpcore``, ``realview-pb-a8``, ``realview-pbx-a9``)
+======================================================================================================
+
+Several variants of the ARM RealView baseboard are emulated, including
+the EB, PB-A8 and PBX-A9. Due to interactions with the bootloader, only
+certain Linux kernel configurations work out of the box on these boards.
+
+Kernels for the PB-A8 board should have CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET
+enabled in the kernel, and expect 512M RAM. Kernels for The PBX-A9 board
+should have CONFIG_SPARSEMEM enabled, CONFIG_REALVIEW_HIGH_PHYS_OFFSET
+disabled and expect 1024M RAM.
+
+The following devices are emulated:
+
+- ARM926E, ARM1136, ARM11MPCore, Cortex-A8 or Cortex-A9 MPCore CPU
+
+- ARM AMBA Generic/Distributed Interrupt Controller
+
+- Four PL011 UARTs
+
+- SMC 91c111 or SMSC LAN9118 Ethernet adapter
+
+- PL110 LCD controller
+
+- PL050 KMI with PS/2 keyboard and mouse
+
+- PCI host bridge
+
+- PCI OHCI USB controller
+
+- LSI53C895A PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter with hard disk and CD-ROM
+ devices
+
+- PL181 MultiMedia Card Interface with SD card.