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

[Blue Swirl]

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.