From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiafY-0004jw-9u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:32:16 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiafW-0004jA-N2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:32:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiafW-0004j4-Fe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:32:14 -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 1HiaZI-0000Pu-Q4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:25:49 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Experimental PATCH]: MIPS Malta YAMON for NetBSD Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:25:43 +0100 References: <008b01c78b51$6979f2c0$e90d11ac@spb.in.rosprint.ru> In-Reply-To: <008b01c78b51$6979f2c0$e90d11ac@spb.in.rosprint.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200704301925.43958.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, Alexander Voropay 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