kumquat-buildroot/board/qemu/mips64r6-malta
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linux.config
readme.txt

Run the emulation with:

 qemu-system-mips64 -M malta -cpu I6400 -kernel output/images/vmlinux -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,format=raw -append "rootwait root=/dev/sda" -nographic # qemu_mips64r6_malta_defconfig

The login prompt will appear in the terminal that started Qemu.