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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>
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Hi,

A static ELF loader would be easy to add, but I don't know what is the 
standard way to pass command line parameters to an OS. I agree that it 
is an important feature. Do you have images of a complete netbsd system 
(kernel with serial console + small disk image) ?

Fabrice.

Nicolas Ollinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried qemu and I am really impressed by its speed!
> 
> By reading vl.c, more precisely the part that loads the bzImage, I
> realized how messy the linux boot process is (please don't flame :-)).
> 
> Would it be possible to have a program in the spirit of vl which will
> just run a standard static ELF binary, passing the command line parameters
> to it. This would allow booting some other OS's kernel with more direct
> boot process, like for example NetBSD.
> 
> A sample (gzipped) ELF kernel is available at the URL
> 
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
> 
> Regards,
> Nicolas.