From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdmzP-0004Ex-D1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:43 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdmzN-0004Cx-F7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:42 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42849 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdmzN-0004Ci-8S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:41 -0400 Received: from hartman.uits.indiana.edu ([129.79.1.194]:37418) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdmzN-0001iL-2S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:41 -0400 Received: from mail-relay.iu.edu (stjoseph.uits.indiana.edu [129.79.1.78]) by hartman.uits.indiana.edu (8.14.2/8.13.8/IU Messaging Team) with ESMTP id m8BEHbK8000915 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:37 -0400 Received: from [129.79.35.119] (nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu [129.79.35.119]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail-relay.iu.edu (8.13.8/8.12.10/IUPO) with ESMTP id m8BEHZT2014838 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target] From: Brian Wheeler In-Reply-To: <761ea48b0809110708m4447c2c0ma70f4347c49fe114@mail.gmail.com> References: <1220975614.29130.86.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <1221052296.10782.23.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> <79A514F4-8DF0-4D20-A74D-BBA41924AE24@adacore.com> <200809101546.50375.paul@codesourcery.com> <1475E75B-475C-479B-9CF7-2684ED010881@adacore.com> <761ea48b0809110708m4447c2c0ma70f4347c49fe114@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:17:35 -0400 Message-Id: <1221142655.26734.20.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 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 > >