[Qemu-devel] Re: how to use qemu to run 2.4.21 kernel(mips->malta board) ?

[Bob Zhang <2004.zhang@gmail.com>]

Hi Vlad Lungu,

I am very glad to see that you have said that you have made 2.4.x mips
malta kernel running on qemu. That 's great!

I see your messages in qemu mailing list:

Can you send your 2.4.x patch to me , thanks very much!
I appreciate your action.
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From:  Vlad Lungu
Subject:  [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Linux 2.4
Date:  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:31:31 +0300
User-agent:  Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207)

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I know some of you will laugh, but:

- QEMU malta emulation is not really complete, to put it mildly
- the QEMU target is available only for Linux 2.6
- despite popular opinion, 2.4 ain't dead yet, at least in the embedded market


I have a port of the QEMU target for Linux 2.4.34.4 (latest 2.4 kernel
on linux-mips.org), with NE2000 card working (in both BE and LE
modes).
Still rough at the edges, but it works on stock qemu-0.9.0 with -M mips.

If anyone is interested, I can send the patch by e-mail. I have no
idea if I can post attachments to the list(s), that's why it's not
attached.


Vlad

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2009/4/28 Bob Zhang <2004.zhang@gmail.com>:
> Hi Fabrice ,
>
> Could you give me some good suggestions or documents about 2.4.x ? thanks .
>
> I know this website:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2004-06/msg00581.html
>
> Now , I can use qemu to run mips-qemu 2.6.18 .
> but when I re-compiled 2.4.21 with malta board, it can't output any message.
>
> [  qemu-system-mipsel -M mips -kernel
> /home/work/data3/mips-org/linux-2.4.21/vmlinux   -initrd initrd.gz
> -hda hda.img   append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/ram" -nographic -m 64
> cpu_model=(null)
> qemu: Warning, could not load MIPS bios '/usr/local/share/qemu/mipsel_bios.bin'
>
> ---no any output -------
>
> my qemu is 0.10 latest version.
>
>
>
> 2009/4/28 Bob Zhang <2004.zhang@gmail.com>:
>> 2.4.x is too old , however, our project is using 2.4.21 kernel .
>>
>> I want to use qemu to run 2.4.21 kernel with mips-malta board to practise ,
>>
>> who has tried this some years ago ? thanks very much!
>>
>> any comment and document will be welcome , thanks very much!
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Bob
>>
>