Stefan Weil wrote: > Hello Thiemo, > > my reboot patch for MIPS > (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2006-09/msg00082.html) > is only partially included in Daniel's patch. > > As far as I know, a MIPS triggers the reboot exception at power-on. > (at least for MIPS 4KEc), so my patch uses the same code for reboot > exception and power-on.
Actually, a MIPS has no notion of "reboot". Is starts up by executing from the reset vector at 0xbfc00000, which is the place where the firmware ROM resides. A "soft reset" exception could be used to signal reboot, but that is then handled by software, and system specific. > Why do we need a special QEMU reset device in the Linux kernel? > QEMU might emulate existing real reset devices as well... Because we want to have both reboot and halt for linux, and ATM we have no firmware in Qemu to handle that. Given the number of incompatible MIPS firmwares out there it might be a bad idea to rely on any of those, unless we improve the Qemu emulation to resemble a real system with its respective firmware. Thiemo _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
