From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59476) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNnJu-00061N-4k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:47:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UNnJi-0006rl-RJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 12:47:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1365007213-27603-1-git-send-email-chouteau@adacore.com> <1365007213-27603-4-git-send-email-chouteau@adacore.com> <7C0E04C3-1FDF-460E-8F78-1E24E5759C93@suse.de> <515D3BDE.20400@adacore.com> <8FE7E3AF-D822-4DBF-8A7E-BD0EA80AD07A@suse.de> <515D69B8.9040007@suse.de> <515DA789.1060505@adacore.com> From: Artyom Tarasenko Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:46:48 +0200 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-devel , Fabien Chouteau , Alexander Graf , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9_Poussineau?= , qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 4 April 2013 17:26, Artyom Tarasenko wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might >>> argue we should have picked a different option name but we're >>> stuck with it now. >> >> No, it's not Linux-only. At least qemu-system-sparc can load NetBSD >> kernel with this option. > > Another example of being inconsistent across architectures, then. No. :) > My point stands: > * -kernel (if it means anything at all) has to mean "boot in > the way a Linux kernel expects and defines its boot protocol" Yes. That's what happens when loading the NetBSD/sparc kernel. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu