From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu static elf boot
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 10:10:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F1F948F.8040309@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0307232159410.30994-100000@onyx.ens-lyon.fr
Hi,
A static ELF loader would be easy to add, but I don't know what is the
standard way to pass command line parameters to an OS. I agree that it
is an important feature. Do you have images of a complete netbsd system
(kernel with serial console + small disk image) ?
Fabrice.
Nicolas Ollinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried qemu and I am really impressed by its speed!
>
> By reading vl.c, more precisely the part that loads the bzImage, I
> realized how messy the linux boot process is (please don't flame :-)).
>
> Would it be possible to have a program in the spirit of vl which will
> just run a standard static ELF binary, passing the command line parameters
> to it. This would allow booting some other OS's kernel with more direct
> boot process, like for example NetBSD.
>
> A sample (gzipped) ELF kernel is available at the URL
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
>
> Regards,
> Nicolas.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-24 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 20:08 [Qemu-devel] qemu static elf boot Nicolas Ollinger
2003-07-24 8:10 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
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2003-07-24 13:08 Nicolas Ollinger
2003-07-27 21:00 ` Nicolas Ollinger
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