Thiemo Seufer wrote:

Vlad Lungu wrote:

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I know some of you will laugh, but:

- QEMU malta emulation is not really complete, to put it mildly

Out of curiosity, what parts did you miss?

Like, for example, the PCI stuff. So I can use the network card.
And yes, I am aware of YAMON.

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- the QEMU target is available only for Linux 2.6
- despite popular opinion, 2.4 ain't dead yet, at least in the embedded 
market


I have a port of the QEMU target for Linux 2.4.34.4 (latest 2.4 kernel on 
linux-mips.org), with NE2000 card working (in both BE and LE modes).
Still rough at the edges, but it works on stock qemu-0.9.0 with -M mips.

I recommend to improve the Qemu Malta emulation, and make it work with
2.4 Malta kernels. (ISTR it used to work, so it shouldn't need a lot to
get there.)

I'm sure that improving the Qemu Malta emulation is a very noble goal, 
but for people that need a working 2.4 kernel NOW, my patch could be 
useful. Having the QEMU target in 2.6 surely helped me.

Vlad