From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add more devices for MIPS system emulation
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:24:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602231924.07802.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060222173542.GA19397@networkno.de>
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 17:35, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 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.
I don't see how providing a fake an x86 boot sector would help this.
Presumably the DECstation firmware just knows how to load an image from disk.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-21 19:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add more devices for MIPS system emulation Thiemo Seufer
2006-02-22 15:28 ` Paul Brook
2006-02-22 17:35 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-02-23 19:24 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-02-23 21:37 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-02-23 21:44 ` Paul Brook
2006-03-06 14:50 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-03-11 21:25 ` Paul Brook
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