> > > 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. > > > > I don't see how providing a fake an x86 boot sector would help this. > > Presumably the DECstation firmware just knows how to load an image from > > disk. > > It loads a block sector list from the bootsector which points to > the second stage bootloader.
The existing linux.bin definitely won't do what you want then. In any case until the MIPS emulation can emulate a DECstation and we have a corresponding BIOS that we can distribute, your patch just breaks diskless MIPS emulation for no apparent benefit. Paul _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
