On 20.01.2020 17:42, Emile `iMil' Heitor wrote:
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> Hi Kamil, Emmanuel & all,
>
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
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>> On 24.09.2019 14:26, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>>>> My use-case is "qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel ./netbsd". Last I tried
>>>> (with
>>>> multiboot2 patches merged) it still did not work.
>>>
>>> I did not commit anything in multiboot support in the NetBSD kernel,
>>> I only worked on bootstraps for now, hence the steady failure you
>>> experience should come at no suprise.
>>>
>>> For now our kernel has support code for multiboot 1 for i386 only.
>>
>> qemu-system-i386 works, but -x86_64 not.
>>
>> Are there plans to add it to the amd64 kernel?
>
> Is there any news on this front? Being able to boot an amd64 kernel
> directly
> from kvm would give NetBSD the ability to be started by AWS
> Firecracker[1] out
> of the box which would be amazing.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker
>
There was some work on multiboot but it was reverted.
I consider qemu -kernel NetBSD/amd64 booting as a high priority.
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