On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 20:51, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Am 18.04.2012 22:35, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> On 04/18/2012 03:28 PM, Blue Swirl wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 21:33, Anthony Liguori<aligu...@us.ibm.com> >>> wrote: >>>> <rant> >>>> >>>> Kernel loading is a hack. I'll go out on a limb and say that most >>>> non-x86 >>>> boards are doing it completely wrong. Messing around with CPU state >>>> has no >>>> business in machine init. It creates horrible dependencies about RAM >>>> initialization order and problems for reset/live migration. >>>> >>>> The kernel should be presented as a virtual device (an emulated flash or >>>> whatever) and there should be firmware that loads the kernel >>>> appropriately. >>>> Then we wouldn't need changes like this in the first place. >>> >>> BIOS is no hack, it is not used by qtest, MIPS refuses to start >>> without one and >>> we don't have any. >> >> So how does one test MIPS system emulation? > > For -M malta I successfully used -kernel, -append and -hda with > Aurélien's Debian images: http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/mips/ > I did not need any additional BIOS. > > As reported in the cover letter of my mips QOM'ification series, > Thiemo's 0.2 test images listed on the Wiki did not work for me: > http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing
I just successfully tried the BIOS binaries from the link in the bottom of this Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIPS_Magnum > > Andreas > > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
