Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qtest: enable qtest for most targets

[Andreas Färber]

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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