From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53188) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKKyy-0004m3-JZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:55:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKKyt-0002gg-Ji for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:55:32 -0400 Received: from mail-ie0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c03::230]:55450) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UKKyt-0002gY-Fj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:55:27 -0400 Received: by mail-ie0-f176.google.com with SMTP id x14so8318446ief.35 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2013 20:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:55:23 -0500 From: Rob Landley In-Reply-To: <5150F8DC.6040300@twiddle.net> (from rth@twiddle.net on Mon Mar 25 20:24:44 2013) Message-Id: <1364270123.15703.78@driftwood> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Target-agnostic virtio? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Richard Henderson Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 03/25/2013 08:24:44 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 2013-03-25 17:52, Rob Landley wrote: >> Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on =20 >> arbitrary >> targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips, =20 >> powerpc, >> sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to qemu's =20 >> stdin/stdout in >> -nographic mode yet?) >>=20 >> I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not =20 >> entirely >> sure why. >=20 > Yes, so long as the machine description has a supported bus, e.g. pci. > It took almost nothing to hook up virtio-pci to alpha. I'm out of date: did Alpha get the ability to boot linux on an emulated =20 board? (I'd like to play with it, if so.) I periodically google for it, but it comes up with stuff like this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10938216/install-an-os-of-alpha-architec= ture-in-qemu If so, is there an example image or kernel .config, and corresponding =20 qemu command line you could point me at? The stuff on http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing is mostly way behind my own =20 images at http://landley.net/aboriginal (which I hope to have updated to 3.8 in =20 the next day or so), but I just checked again and there's no Alpha =20 image there either... Rob=