From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hagji-0004nb-Ko for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:23:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hagjh-0004nP-4i for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:23:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hagjg-0004nM-Vl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:23:53 -0400 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hagfv-0006t1-Af for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:19:59 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:19:54 +0100 References: <1176026443.1516.176.camel@rapid> In-Reply-To: <1176026443.1516.176.camel@rapid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704090019.55339.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 > Mr Paul Brook did break the PREP and heathrow machines while doing > changes in the PCI code. There were some posts on this list reporting > this and he never even tried to fix what he broke. And now he's > complaining "I cannot test as it does not work". Looks like a bad joke, > no ? AFAIK PPC emulation hasn't *ever* worked well enough to boot without at least building a custom linux kernel. In addition the -kernel commandline option have no effect, and there is no test image available. I stand by my original statement. A machine that requires building a custom kernel, maybe hacking a bootloader, and creating a bootable filesystem from scratch is untestable. Paul