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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Voropay <alec@nwpi.ru>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Experimental PATCH]: MIPS Malta YAMON for NetBSD
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:25:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704301925.43958.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <008b01c78b51$6979f2c0$e90d11ac@spb.in.rosprint.ru>

On Monday 30 April 2007, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  This patch add a simply YAMON services ( print() and print_count()  )
> to Malta pseudo-loader. This services are requred for NetBSD to run.
>
>  As a result, an *unmodified* NetBSD 3.0 kernel starts to work but hangs
> very early on the PCNET PCI Ethernet (IRQ=0). The PCI is not initialized
> and NetBSD Malta does not contains a PCI fuxup routines.
>
> P.S. The Malta bootloader must acts as PCI BIOS to run NetBSD 3.0
> and Linux 2.4 .

Isn't this "bootloader" getting big enough now to warrant building and 
shipping as a separately as an actual BIOS image?

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-30 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-30 18:00 [Qemu-devel] [Experimental PATCH]: MIPS Malta YAMON for NetBSD Alexander Voropay
2007-04-30 18:25 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2007-05-04 14:37   ` Thiemo Seufer

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