Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add more devices for MIPS system emulation

[Thiemo Seufer]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 03:28:04PM +0000, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:11, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > this adds to the MIPS system emulation:
> >  - Harddisk emulation, including MSDOS partition labels.
> 
> Why do you need the bootsector bits? IIUC this was an x86 specific hack to 
> make the x86 bios load the kernel passed with -kernel.
> The MIPS emulation jumps directly to the loaded kernel, so this should not be 
> necessary.

That's the current state since there is no real mips firmware, but Qemu
should also be able to boot from an image. E.g. Linux/MIPS on
DECstations uses MSDOS disklabels.


Thiemo