From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FC0ea-0000ue-Sp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:32:06 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FBzuB-00059i-7w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:44:09 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FBzDI-0002IU-PC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:59:49 -0500 Received: from [65.74.133.4] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FBw11-0000et-2W for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:34:55 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add more devices for MIPS system emulation Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:28:04 +0000 References: <20060221191118.GA4110@networkno.de> In-Reply-To: <20060221191118.GA4110@networkno.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200602221528.05709.paul@codesourcery.com> 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 On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:11, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Hello All, > > this adds to the MIPS system emulation: > - Harddisk emulation, including MSDOS partition labels. Why do you need the bootsector bits? IIUC this was an x86 specific hack to make the x86 bios load the kernel passed with -kernel. The MIPS emulation jumps directly to the loaded kernel, so this should not be necessary. Paul