Re: NetBSD/alpha on qemu-system-alpha

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Aug 2021 07:28:54 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.alpha
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Aug 19, 2021, at 7:22 AM, Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> GENERIC.QEMU is exactly the same as GENERIC except that it has the kernel symbol table injected into it for use by the in-kernel debugger (and, eventually, the in-kernel linker for modules, once I finish implementing all of the necessary relocations for Alpha).

Oops, I forgot to say why.

“Because we can’t use the NetBSD/alpha boot loader to load the kernel.  Normally, the boot loader would load the symbol table for use by the kernel."

-- thorpej