On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:30 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 4 April 2013 17:26, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> >> wrote: >>> But -kernel for QEMU specifically means Linux kernel; you might >>> argue we should have picked a different option name but we're >>> stuck with it now. >> >> No, it's not Linux-only. At least qemu-system-sparc can load NetBSD >> kernel with this option. > > Another example of being inconsistent across architectures, then.
No. :) > My point stands: > * -kernel (if it means anything at all) has to mean "boot in > the way a Linux kernel expects and defines its boot protocol" Yes. That's what happens when loading the NetBSD/sparc kernel. -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
