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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Support For Octeon/Cavium CPU (MIPS system)
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:27:26 +0100
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> I own a cavium/octeon board. I run a linux on it.
>
> I want to usr qemu for convenience in order to continue my developpements.
>
> I know that Cavium/octeon board are MIPS CPU.

Not really. They're MIPS with extra weirdness.

Your kernel needs to match the exact CPU and board that you're emulating. i.e. 
if you want to use an unmodified kernel you need to add support for both the 
CPU and board to qemu.

Paul