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

[Thiemo Seufer]

Paul Brook wrote:
> 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?

I committed the patch because it allows to run a number of simple
standalone programs available for Malta. But I'd say, that's it in
terms of features. Anything more should go in a separate binary.


Thiemo