$ qemu-system-mipsel -M malta -kernel vmlinux-2.6.26-1-4kc-malta -hda debian_lenny_mipsel_small.qcow2 -append "root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0" -nographic
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Linux version 2.6.26-1-4kc-malta (Debian 2.6.26-13) (waldi@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-24)) #1 Sat Jan 10 21:03:55 UTC 2009
[    0.000000]
[    0.000000] LINUX started...
[    0.000000] console [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU revision is: 00019300 (MIPS 24K)
[    0.000000] FPU revision is: 00739300
[    0.000000] registering PCI controller with io_map_base unset
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 00001000 @ 00000000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  memory: 000ef000 @ 00001000 (ROM data)
[    0.000000]  memory: 00484000 @ 000f0000 (reserved)
[    0.000000]  memory: 07a8c000 @ 00574000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Wasting 44672 bytes for tracking 1396 unused pages
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA             0 ->     4096
[    0.000000]   Normal       4096 ->    32768
[    0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[    0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[    0.000000]     0:        0 ->    32768
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 32512
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 console=ttyS0
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 2kB, VIPT, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 2kB, 2-way, VIPT, no aliases, linesize 16 bytes
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
[    0.000000] CPU frequency 199.98 MHz
[17179569.200000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[17179569.204000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[17179569.208000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[17179569.236000] Memory: 124308k/125488k available (3321k kernel code, 1132k reserved, 820k data, 180k init, 0k highmem)
[17179569.332000] Security Framework initialized
[17179569.344000] SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
[17179569.348000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179569.352000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179569.388000] Initializing cgroup subsys ns
[17179569.392000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[17179569.396000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[17179569.468000] net_namespace: 652 bytes
[17179569.484000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179569.556000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17179569.568000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[17179569.576000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[17179569.584000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[17179569.604000] pci 0000:00:0a.3: quirk: region 1100-110f claimed by PIIX4 SMB
[17179569.680000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179569.744000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179569.760000] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[17179569.764000] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[17179569.768000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[17179569.772000] TCP reno registered
[17179569.784000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179569.840000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179569.844000] type=2000 audit(1270050089.660:1): initialized
[17179569.856000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179569.860000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179569.876000] msgmni has been set to 242
[17179569.884000] Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 254)
[17179569.892000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179569.892000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179569.896000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179569.900000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[17179569.980000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179570.004000] serial8250.2: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
[17179570.012000] console handover: boot [early0] -> real [ttyS0]
[17179570.020000] serial8250.2: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[17179570.024000] serial8250.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x1f000900 (irq = 18) is a 16550A
[17179570.076000] brd: module loaded
[17179570.076000] pcnet32.c:v1.35 21.Apr.2008 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
[17179570.084000] pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x1020, 52:54:00:12:34:56 assigned IRQ 10.
[17179570.100000] eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
[17179570.104000] pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
[17179570.108000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
[17179570.108000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179570.120000] PIIX4: IDE controller (0x8086:0x7111 rev 0x00) at  PCI slot 0000:00:0a.1
[17179570.124000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.1 (0000 -> 0001)
[17179570.136000] PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179570.140000]     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1040-0x1047
[17179570.144000]     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1048-0x104f
[17179570.440000] hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive
[17179571.136000] hda: UDMA/33 mode selected
[17179571.896000] hdc: QEMU DVD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179572.568000] hdc: UDMA/33 mode selected
[17179572.576000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179572.588000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[17179572.600000] ide_generic: please use "probe_mask=0x3f" module parameter for probing all legacy ISA IDE ports
[17179572.608000] ide_generic: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free.
[17179572.612000] ide_generic: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free.
[17179572.620000] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[17179572.620000] hda: 20971520 sectors (10737 MB) w/256KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
[17179572.636000] hda: cache flushes supported
[17179572.644000]  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
[17179572.800000] USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
[17179572.804000] PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0a.2 (0000 -> 0001)
[17179572.808000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:0a.2: UHCI Host Controller
[17179572.820000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179572.828000] uhci_hcd 0000:00:0a.2: irq 11, io base 0x00001000
[17179572.852000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179572.872000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179572.872000] hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
[17179573.004000] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[17179573.008000] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[17179573.012000] usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller
[17179573.016000] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.26-1-4kc-malta uhci_hcd
[17179573.020000] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:0a.2
[17179573.040000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179573.044000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179573.068000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179573.088000] TCP cubic registered
[17179573.088000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179573.096000] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[17179573.100000] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[17179573.108000] registered taskstats version 1
[17179573.196000] input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179573.924000] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179573.944000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179573.952000] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
[17179573.972000] Freeing prom memory: 956k freed
[17179574.000000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 180k freed
INIT: version 2.86 booting
Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd.
Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done.
Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[17179620.688000] hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
[17179620.692000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179622.020000] piix4_smbus 0000:00:0a.3: Found 0000:00:0a.3 device
[17179622.040000] physmap platform flash device: 00400000 at 1e000000
[17179622.676000] input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse as /class/input/input1
[17179630.228000] cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
[17179631.520000] RedBoot partition parsing not available
[17179631.524000] Using physmap partition information
[17179631.528000] Creating 3 MTD partitions on "physmap-flash.0":
[17179631.532000] 0x00000000-0x00100000 : "YAMON"
[17179631.536000] 0x00100000-0x003e0000 : "User FS"
[17179631.540000] 0x003e0000-0x00400000 : "Board Config"
done.
Setting the system clock.
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method.
Unable to set System Clock to: Wed Mar 31 15:42:34 UTC 2010 (warning).
Activating swap...[17179637.044000] Adding 361420k swap on /dev/hda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:361420k
done.
Checking root file system...fsck 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008)
/dev/hda1: clean, 18928/632736 files, 175018/2530229 blocks
done.
[17179639.708000] EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Setting the system clock.
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method.
Unable to set System Clock to: Wed Mar 31 15:42:40 UTC 2010 (warning).
Cleaning up ifupdown....
Loading kernel modules...[17179649.980000] 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...[17179668.584000] 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-mipsel ttyS0

debian-mipsel login:

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
system type             : MIPS Malta
processor               : 0
cpu model               : MIPS 24K V0.0  FPU V0.0
BogoMIPS                : 258.04
wait instruction        : yes
microsecond timers      : yes
tlb_entries             : 16
extra interrupt vector  : yes
hardware watchpoint     : yes
ASEs implemented        :
shadow register sets    : 1
core                    : 0
VCED exceptions         : not available
VCEI exceptions         : not available