Re: [Qemu-devel] [Patch] Ali Chipset support for PC [+ questions about alpha-softmmu target]

[Tristan Gingold]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Paul Brook wrote:

> > So if you get the SRM decompressed from es40, you can start to work
> > on the softmmu emulation.
>
> Does linux actually use the bios at all once it's loaded[1]?
> If not the simplest solution may be to load the kernel directly,  
> and ignore
> the machine firmware.

The SRM contains the PALcode and any OS depends on PALcode.
MILO is an open-source firmware for Alpha.  Maybe we could start from  
it too.