After I added "-cpu 34Kf", qemu would start normally again even with "-smp 2" option.
However, "cat /proc/cpuinfo" only shows 1 CPU. "uname -a" shows the following which seems to suggest the kernel is not SMP aware. Is there a kernel for malta with SMP support? Linux debian-mips 4.9.0-7-4kc-malta #1 Debian 4.9.110-3+deb9u2 (2018-08-13) mips GNU/Linux Thanks. Jun On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 8:47 AM Jun Sun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I've been loosely following the instruct at this page, > https://github.com/kholia/mips-hacking > > My host is ubuntu 16.04. I used ubuntu prebuilt qemu system images. > > My guest is the latest stretch 9.5 malta netboot images. Kernel is > vmlinux-4.9.0-7-4kc-malta. > > Below is my startup script. If I change "smp" to 2, the startup will hang > very early on. Does anybody if this is a known limit with debian distro? > Or it is an issue with the ubuntu prebuilt qemu? Or there are some other > gotcha's here? > > qemu-system-mips \ > -M malta \ > -m 256 \ > -hda hda.qcow2 \ > -kernel vmlinux-4.9.0-7-4kc-malta \ > -initrd initrd.img-4.9.0-7-4kc-malta \ > -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyS0 nokaslr" \ > -nographic \ > -redir tcp:2222::22 \ > -smp 1 \ > \ > > Cheers. > > Jun > > > >
