Re: [Qemu-devel] [Experimental PATCH]: MIPS Malta YAMON for NetBSD

[Paul Brook]

On Monday 30 April 2007, Alexander Voropay wrote:
> Hi!
>
>  This patch add a simply YAMON services ( print() and print_count()  )
> to Malta pseudo-loader. This services are requred for NetBSD to run.
>
>  As a result, an *unmodified* NetBSD 3.0 kernel starts to work but hangs
> very early on the PCNET PCI Ethernet (IRQ=0). The PCI is not initialized
> and NetBSD Malta does not contains a PCI fuxup routines.
>
> P.S. The Malta bootloader must acts as PCI BIOS to run NetBSD 3.0
> and Linux 2.4 .

Isn't this "bootloader" getting big enough now to warrant building and 
shipping as a separately as an actual BIOS image?

Paul