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I'm out of date: did Alpha get the ability to boot linux on an emulated board?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

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