From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FCC9u-0007Zd-IU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:49:11 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FC01k-0005vU-Lv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:52:01 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBz9h-0001mS-Qe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:56:06 -0500 Received: from [193.7.176.20] (helo=bender.bawue.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.52) id 1FBy1r-0007aC-Is for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:43:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:35:42 +0000 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add more devices for MIPS system emulation Message-ID: <20060222173542.GA19397@networkno.de> References: <20060221191118.GA4110@networkno.de> <200602221528.05709.paul@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602221528.05709.paul@codesourcery.com> From: Thiemo Seufer Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paul Brook Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:28:04PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:11, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > this adds to the MIPS system emulation: > > - Harddisk emulation, including MSDOS partition labels. > > Why do you need the bootsector bits? IIUC this was an x86 specific hack to > make the x86 bios load the kernel passed with -kernel. > The MIPS emulation jumps directly to the loaded kernel, so this should not be > necessary. That's the current state since there is no real mips firmware, but Qemu should also be able to boot from an image. E.g. Linux/MIPS on DECstations uses MSDOS disklabels. Thiemo