On 03/25/2013 08:24:44 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
On 2013-03-25 17:52, Rob Landley wrote:
Can the virtio things (serial, network, block, virtfs) be used on
arbitrary
targets yet? I.E. Can I use a virtio network device on arm, mips,
powerpc,
sparc... (And can the virtio serial console hook up to qemu's
stdin/stdout in
-nographic mode yet?)
I asked this in 2010 and the answer at the time was "no". Still not
entirely
sure why.
Yes, so long as the machine description has a supported bus, e.g. pci.
It took almost nothing to hook up virtio-pci to alpha.
I'm out of date: did Alpha get the ability to boot linux on an emulated
board? (I'd like to play with it, if so.)
I periodically google for it, but it comes up with stuff like this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10938216/install-an-os-of-alpha-architecture-in-qemu
If so, is there an example image or kernel .config, and corresponding
qemu command line you could point me at?
The stuff on http://wiki.qemu.org/Testing is mostly way behind my own
images at
http://landley.net/aboriginal (which I hope to have updated to 3.8 in
the next day or so), but I just checked again and there's no Alpha
image there either...
Rob
