Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] A cumulative MIPS patchset

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:45:04PM +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> 
>>Dirk Behme wrote:
>>
>>>Thiemo Seufer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I suggest to use the patch below instead. It is based on the patch I
>>>>>posted [1] on the mailing list a few days ago. it moves the
>>>>>initialisation of the RTC date/time into hw/mc146818rtc.c, to avoid
>>>>>duplication of code. I guess all platform using this RTC chip will want
>>>>>to setup at least the date and time.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I included it in my current mips patchset, available from
>>>>http://people.debian.org/~ths/qemu/2006-11-26/
>>>
>>>
>>>I saw no other comments on the list, so any chance to get this patchset 
>>>applied?
>>
>>I'll try to review it ASAP if no one does it before me :-)
>>
>>BTW, I would be really interested by integrating a Malta board emulation 
>>so that proper PCI devices can be added.
>>
> 
> 
> I am currently working on that. I still don't know when I will be able
> to finish that, maybe next week-end. 
> 
> Currently I am able to boot an unmodified mipsel Malta kernel, with the
> PIIX3 IDE controller and a PCI Ethernet card. I still have some PCI 
> ressources problems, and I haven't looked at the endianess problem (the
> GT64120 northbridge can swap the data on the PCI bus depending on a flag
> in it's configuration area). Also the emulated floppy drive does not 
> work.

Very interesting. Send the code as soon as you feel it is usable !

Regards,

Fabrice.