$ qemu-system-arm -M versatilepb -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-versatile -initrd initrd.img-2.6.26-1-versatile -hda debian_lenny_armel_small.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyAMA0" -nographic
Uncompressing Linux...................................................................................... done, booting the kernel.
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-1-versatile (Debian 2.6.26-13lenny2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 Sun Mar 15 05:49:36 UTC 2009
[    0.000000] CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00093177
[    0.000000] Machine: ARM-Versatile PB
[    0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[    0.000000] CPU0: D VIVT write-through cache
[    0.000000] CPU0: I cache: 4096 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 32 sets
[    0.000000] CPU0: D cache: 65536 bytes, associativity 4, 32 byte lines, 512 sets
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda1 console=ttyAMA0
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
[    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 128MB = 128MB total
[    0.000000] Memory: 124800KB available (2416K code, 362K data, 112K init)
[    0.000000] Security Framework initialized
[    0.000000] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[    0.000000] Capability LSM initialized
[    0.000000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[    0.000000] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.000000] net_namespace: 652 bytes
[    0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.000000] PCI core found (slot 11)
[    0.000000] PCI: bus0: Fast back to back transfers disabled
[    0.000000] PCI map irq: slot 0, pin 1, devslot 12, irq: 27
[    0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.000000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.000000] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[    0.000000] TCP reno registered
[    0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.000000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[    0.000000] Freeing initrd memory: 2113K
[    0.000000] NetWinder Floating Point Emulator V0.97 (double precision)
[    0.000000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[    0.000000] type=2000 audit(3.279:1): initialized
[    0.000000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[    0.000000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.000000] msgmni has been set to 248
[    0.000000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
[    0.000000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.000000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[    0.000000] io scheduler deadline registered
[    0.000000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[    0.000000] CLCD: unknown LCD panel ID 0x00001000, using VGA
[    0.000000] CLCD: Versatile hardware, VGA display
[    0.000000] Clock CLCDCLK: setting VCO reg params: S=1 R=99 V=98
[    0.000000] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[    0.000000] Serial: AMBA PL011 UART driver
[    0.000000] dev:f1: ttyAMA0 at MMIO 0x101f1000 (irq = 12) is a AMBA/PL011
[    0.000000] console [ttyAMA0] enabled
[    0.000000] dev:f2: ttyAMA1 at MMIO 0x101f2000 (irq = 13) is a AMBA/PL011
[    0.000000] dev:f3: ttyAMA2 at MMIO 0x101f3000 (irq = 14) is a AMBA/PL011
[    0.000000] fpga:09: ttyAMA3 at MMIO 0x10009000 (irq = 38) is a AMBA/PL011
[    0.000000] brd: module loaded
[    0.000000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[    0.000000] rtc-pl031 dev:e8: rtc core: registered pl031 as rtc0
[    0.000000] input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[    0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 26
[    0.000000] TCP cubic registered
[    0.000000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    0.000000] VFP support v0.3: implementor 41 architecture 1 part 10 variant 9 rev 0
[    0.000000] registered taskstats version 1
[    0.000000] rtc-pl031 dev:e8: setting system clock to 2010-03-31 16:06:21 UTC (1270051581)
[    0.000000] Freeing init memory: 112K
Loading, please wait...
Begin: Loading essential drivers ... [    0.000000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    0.000000] PCI: enabling device 0000:00:0c.0 (0140 -> 0143)
[    0.000000] sym0: <895a> rev 0x0 at pci 0000:00:0c.0 irq 27
[    0.000000] sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking
[    0.000000] sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
[    0.000000] scsi0 : sym-2.2.3
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ... ^C[    0.000000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     QEMU     QEMU HARDDISK    0.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3
[    0.000000]  target0:0:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
[    0.000000]  target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
[    0.000000]  target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests
[    0.000000]  target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
[    0.000000] scsi 0:0:2:0: CD-ROM            QEMU     QEMU CD-ROM      0.10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3
[    0.000000]  target0:0:2: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16.
[    0.000000]  target0:0:2: Beginning Domain Validation
[    0.000000]  target0:0:2: Domain Validation skipping write tests
[    0.000000]  target0:0:2: Ending Domain Validation
[    0.000000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971520 512-byte hardware sectors (10737 MB)
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 20971520 512-byte hardware sectors (10737 MB)
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    0.000000]  sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... Begin: Running /scripts/local-top ... done.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-premount ... done.
[    0.000000] EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
[    0.000000] EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
[    0.000000] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[    0.000000] EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
[    0.000000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... done.
done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done.
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd[    0.000000] udevd version 125 started
.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[    0.000000] Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[    0.000000] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/50x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    0.000000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    0.000000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[    0.000000] sr 0:0:2:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[    0.000000] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1
[    0.000000] smc91x.c: v1.1, sep 22 2004 by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
[    0.000000] eth0: SMC91C11xFD (rev 1) at c8812000 IRQ 25 [nowait]
[    0.000000] eth0: Ethernet addr: 52:54:00:12:34:56
done.
Setting the system clock.
Activating swap...[    0.000000] Adding 369452k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:369452k
done.
Checking root file system...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
/dev/sda1: clean, 18830/632736 files, 161001/2528221 blocks
done.
[    0.000000] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
Setting the system clock.
Cleaning up ifupdown....
Loading kernel modules...[    0.000000] loop: module loaded
done.
Checking file systems...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
done.
Setting kernel variables (/etc/sysctl.conf)...done.
Mounting local filesystems...done.
Activating swapfile swap...done.
Setting up networking....
Configuring network interfaces...[    0.000000] eth0: link up
done.
Starting portmap daemon....
Starting NFS common utilities: statd.
Setting console screen modes and fonts.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Starting enhanced syslogd: rsyslogd.
Starting MTA: exim4.
Starting NFS common utilities: statd.
Not starting internet superserver: no services enabled.
Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 debian-armel ttyAMA0

debian-armel login:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor       : ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)
BogoMIPS        : 145.40
Features        : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 5TEJ
CPU variant     : 0x0
CPU part        : 0x926
CPU revision    : 5
Cache type      : write-through
Cache clean     : not required
Cache lockdown  : not supported
Cache format    : Harvard
I size          : 4096
I assoc         : 4
I line length   : 32
I sets          : 32
D size          : 65536
D assoc         : 4
D line length   : 32
D sets          : 512

Hardware        : ARM-Versatile PB
Revision        : 0000
Serial          : 0000000000000000