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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets
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Andreas Färber |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets |
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Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:51:45 +0200 |
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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<address@hidden>
>> 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
Andreas
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Peter Maydell, 2012/04/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Blue Swirl, 2012/04/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Peter Maydell, 2012/04/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Anthony Liguori, 2012/04/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Peter Maydell, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Anthony Liguori, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Andreas Färber, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Blue Swirl, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Anthony Liguori, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Blue Swirl, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets,
Andreas Färber <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Blue Swirl, 2012/04/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets, Blue Swirl, 2012/04/18