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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Voropay <alec@nwpi.ru>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Experimental PATCH]: MIPS Malta YAMON for NetBSD
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 15:37:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504143758.GA9802@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704301925.43958.paul@codesourcery.com>

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Monday 30 April 2007, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >  This patch add a simply YAMON services ( print() and print_count()  )
> > to Malta pseudo-loader. This services are requred for NetBSD to run.
> >
> >  As a result, an *unmodified* NetBSD 3.0 kernel starts to work but hangs
> > very early on the PCNET PCI Ethernet (IRQ=0). The PCI is not initialized
> > and NetBSD Malta does not contains a PCI fuxup routines.
> >
> > P.S. The Malta bootloader must acts as PCI BIOS to run NetBSD 3.0
> > and Linux 2.4 .
> 
> Isn't this "bootloader" getting big enough now to warrant building and 
> shipping as a separately as an actual BIOS image?

I committed the patch because it allows to run a number of simple
standalone programs available for Malta. But I'd say, that's it in
terms of features. Anything more should go in a separate binary.


Thiemo

      reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30 18:00 [Qemu-devel] [Experimental PATCH]: MIPS Malta YAMON for NetBSD Alexander Voropay
2007-04-30 18:25 ` Paul Brook
2007-05-04 14:37   ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]

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