Re: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio?

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On 03/25/2013 08:24:44 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 2013-03-25 17:52, Rob Landley wrote:
>> Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on  
>> arbitrary
>> targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips,  
>> powerpc,
>> sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to qemu's  
>> stdin/stdout in
>> -nographic mode yet?)
>> 
>> I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not  
>> entirely
>> sure why.
> 
> Yes, so long as the machine description has a supported bus, e.g. pci.
> It took almost nothing to hook up virtio-pci to alpha.

I'm out of date: did Alpha get the ability to boot linux on an emulated  
board? (I'd like to play with it, if so.)

I periodically google for it, but it comes up with stuff like this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10938216/install-an-os-of-alpha-architecture-in-qemu

If so, is there an example image or kernel .config, and corresponding  
qemu command line you could point me at?

The stuff on http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing is mostly way behind my own  
images at
http://landley.net/aboriginal (which I hope to have updated to 3.8 in  
the next day or so), but I just checked again and there's no Alpha  
image there either...

Rob