From: Brian Wheeler <bdwheele@indiana.edu>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target]
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1221142655.26734.20.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <761ea48b0809110708m4447c2c0ma70f4347c49fe114@mail.gmail.com>
I believe Milo was needed for systems with the AlphaBIOS and/or ARC
consoles. Systems with SRM are unix friendly, so Linux didn't need a
special console for them (and BSD only supported SRM). As near as I can
tell from the es40 rom, it looks like there are a bunch of diagnostics
in it if you turn them on...
Brian
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:08 +0200, Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
> >
> > The SRM contains the PALcode and any OS depends on PALcode.
> > MILO is an open-source firmware for Alpha. Maybe we could start from it
> > too.
>
> My understanding is that SRM is required anyway to boot
> "modern" Alpha systems. MILO is used on older systems.
>
> cf: http://www.alphalinux.org/faq/SRM-HOWTO
>
>
> Laurent
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-11 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 15:53 [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target] Brian Wheeler
2008-09-09 16:16 ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-10 7:30 ` Tristan Gingold
2008-09-10 13:11 ` Brian Wheeler
2008-09-10 14:17 ` Tristan Gingold
2008-09-10 14:46 ` Paul Brook
2008-09-10 15:19 ` Tristan Gingold
2008-09-10 16:43 ` Paul Brook
2008-09-11 14:08 ` Laurent Desnogues
2008-09-11 14:17 ` Brian Wheeler [this message]
2008-09-10 15:42 ` Avi Kivity
2008-09-10 14:51 ` Brian Wheeler
2008-09-10 19:44 ` Hervé Poussineau
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