Re: [Qemu-devel] Using load_elf

2012-04-04 Thread Brian Vandenberg
> ROM images are in form of binary blobs with no location information, > they must be loaded to a known address. For boot ROMs, the address > range would cover CPU hard reset entry vector. So, for a BIOS or boot ROM that has been stripped, the board needs to be hard-coded to not just load the imag

[Qemu-devel] Using load_elf

2012-04-03 Thread Brian Vandenberg
I'm attempting to familiarize myself with the APIs used to add support for boards in qemu, and I have a few questions. * How does using load_elf differ from load_image_targphys? As an example, many of the boards I've looked at have a hard-coded entrypoint. In mpc8455, it looks as though it d

Re: [Qemu-devel] Has anybody run Vxworks on KVM?

2012-03-02 Thread Brian Vandenberg
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:10 AM, GaoYi wrote: > Hi all, > >I am trying to run Vxworks on KVM under X86_64 platform. Now I can > startup vxworks without 'no-kvm' option. However, the bootup failed with > hardware virtualization selected. Has anybody run it successfully? > >Any of your sugges

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 944628] [NEW] Documentation for mtdblock, option-rom, and pflash is non-existent

2012-03-02 Thread Brian Vandenberg
Public bug reported: The options -mtdblock, -option-rom, and -pflash are severely under- documented. For example: -mtdblock -- It isn't at all clear what this does from --help or the documentation, and it's especially not clear that it's only implemented for ARM right now -option-rom is only i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [OpenBIOS] solaris 8 on sparc, webstart launcher crashing

2011-05-31 Thread Brian Vandenberg
> Yeah - at this point the kernel should have taken over completely and so I > expect that you're hitting an emulation bug (probably the Solaris compiler > emits certain instruction sequences not used by gcc which is why this has > only just come to light). Alright. I'll do what I can. Thanks

Re: [Qemu-devel] [OpenBIOS] solaris 8 on sparc, webstart launcher crashing

2011-05-28 Thread Brian Vandenberg
> If the problem is on the QEMU side, getting relevant QEMU debug logs > (-d in_asm,int which needs #define DEBUG_PCALL enabled in > target-sparc/op_helper.c) would be needed. Those will be quite large > and the relevant info is only near the end. I'm not sure I'll be able to get/make available