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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image


From: Artyom Tarasenko
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] PPC PReP: can run without bios image
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:26:25 +0200

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:17, Fabien Chouteau <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 04/04/2013 02:43 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>> The UI is all wrong, though:
>>> -kernel should always mean "load a Linux kernel" and we should
>>> have some other way (ideally a cross-architecture way) of saying
>>> "just load this binary blob and start it". (-bios isn't that
>>> because -bios tends to (a) mean different things on different
>>> boards and (b) mean 'put this in flash or whatever' rather than
>>> 'dump stuff in RAM and go'.)
>>>
>>
>> I think -kernel works fine for all architecture. Linux is not the only
>> kernel available ;)
>
> But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might
> argue we should have picked a different option name but we're
> stuck with it now.

No, it's not Linux-only. At least qemu-system-sparc can load NetBSD
kernel with this option.

--
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog:
http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu



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