On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 03:40:20PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz a écrit :
> >These patches for qemu let IDE and initrd work in the defconfig.
> >It seems to function - I was able to get as far as partitioning
> >the drive in the debian installer and the next time I started qemu
> >the new partitions were found. But the installer hangs up trying
> >to format swap.
> >
> >Of course, what would be really nice would be a PCI controller.
> >I'm not brave enough to try.
> >
> >I'm not going to submit the qemu change until I have some better
> >evidence that it all works right (or someone else does).
> >
>
> First of all, thanks a lot for your work, that makes QEMU mips more usable.
>
> The IDE part works very well, though there seems to be some problems
> with userland tools (mke2fs), an instruction is probably not/bad
> emulated. I now have a system with the root on the IDE drive and with swap.
>
After a week of test, I can say that the IDE part is working correctly
(at least for me, and I suppose for you), I am using it on an emulated
system with ext3 as the root partition, and with swap. There are some
problems related to the userland tools (mke2fs) though.
Therefore I propose to submit the IDE part to QEMU. I have extracted it
from your patch, which also contains initrd support.
Care to send it?
Thanks,
Aurelien
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mips-qemu-ide.patch
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