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 21:44:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602232144.21423.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223213705.GD19397@networkno.de>
> > > 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.
The existing linux.bin definitely won't do what you want then.
In any case until the MIPS emulation can emulate a DECstation and we have a
corresponding BIOS that we can distribute, your patch just breaks diskless
MIPS emulation for no apparent benefit.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 22:25 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
2006-02-23 21:37 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-02-23 21:44 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-03-06 14:50 ` Thiemo Seufer
2006-03-11 21:25 ` Paul Brook
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