Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/24] Add target-alpha/machine.c with es40 machine emulation.

[Tristan Gingold]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:

> On 3/13/09, Tristan Gingold <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The machine emulation is not yet complete, in particular vm save  
> > and load is
> > not yet implemented.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tristan Gingold <address@hidden>
>
> > +/* Building the firmware for es40:
> > +
> > +   The main part of the firmware is called SRM.  You can get an  
> > original
> > +   image from HP web site:
> > +
> > +   
> > ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/alphaserver/firmware/current_platforms/v7.3_release/ES40_series/ES40/es40.zip
> > +
> > +   Extract the archive and copy cl67srmrom.exe into a directory.
> > +
> > +   Then start Qemu using es40-rombuild machine:
> > +
> > +   $ qemu-system-alpha -M es40-rombuild -boot n -L .
> > +
> > +   This builds the rom, writes es40.rom file and exits.  Now you  
> > have it.
> > +*/
>
> I'd put the ROM extraction program somewhere else, it's not related to
> machine emulation very much.

Except that the ROM extraction process need to run alpha code to  
decompress itself.