Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add more devices for MIPS system emulation

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:24:06PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> 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.

It loads a block sector list from the bootsector which points to
the second stage bootloader.


Thiemo