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Daniel Golle 599a25cc71 malta: drop the virtual terminal layer
target/linux/generic disables CONFIG_VT and this fragment switches it
back on, along with the dummy console and the console translations.
No fbdev or DRM display driver is enabled here, so the terminal has
nothing to bind to; it is kernel size every image pays for. Drop it.
The serial console is unaffected and INPUT stays enabled in its own
right.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
2026-10-06 18:35:40 +01:00
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This Malta target is intended to be used with the Qemu emulator. It can be used
to prototype an OpenWrt firmware for MIPS processors. One could also use it to
troubleshoot MIPS applications without access to real hardware.

To use the images built by OpenWrt with qemu, use the following commands:

For the 32 bit little-endian image:
qemu-system-mipsel -kernel bin/targets/malta/le/openwrt-malta-le-vmlinux-initramfs.elf -nographic -m 256

For the 32 bit big-endian image:
qemu-system-mips -kernel bin/targets/malta/be/openwrt-malta-be-vmlinux-initramfs.elf -nographic -m 256

For the 64 bit little-endian image:
qemu-system-mips64el -kernel bin/targets/malta/le64/openwrt-malta-le64-vmlinux-initramfs.elf -cpu MIPS64R2-generic -nographic -m 256

For the 64 bit big-endian image:
qemu-system-mips64 -kernel bin/targets/malta/be64/openwrt-malta-be64-vmlinux-initramfs.elf -cpu MIPS64R2-generic -nographic -m 256

and enjoy the system bootin.