Re: [Qemu-devel] MIPS emulation?

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Daniel Jacobowitz schrieb:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 12:13:26AM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 
>>According to the docs on http://qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC45, Qemu "is 
>>able to boot a Linux kernel and to run a Linux Debian installation from 
>>NFS".
>>
>>I downloaded debian-31r1a-mips-netinst.iso image, and tried to start it:
>>
>># qemu-system-mips -boot d -m 128 -cdrom debian-31r1a-mips-netinst.iso
>>mips_r4k_init: start
>>mips_r4k_init: load BIOS '/usr/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin' size 131072
>>
>>The only thing that happen is Qemu window being open, black all the time.
>>
>>When checked with "top", qemu-system-mips process takes about 70-80% of 
>>CPU time.
>>
>>I created the /usr/share/qemu/mips_bios.bin file with dd command.
>>
>>
>>Why doesn't it start for me?
> 
> 
> (A) You have to build a qemu-specific kernel to use the MIPS QEMU.

And how to build "qemu-specific MIPS kernel"?

Is it just a kernel built for MIPS, or perhaps some qemu-specific 
patches have to be applied?


> (B) I have no idea if that method works with MIPS qemu; I only tested
> -kernel.

Hmm?

I didn't quite understand what you mean.


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