Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an SH4 QEMU-ready kernel (for TCG conversion)

[Andreas Färber]

Am 30.08.2008 um 00:29 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:12:13PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am 28.08.2008 um 23:17 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> >
> > > By the way, patches
> > > for the PPC and Alpha target are also welcome.
> >
> > I'd be interested in helping with ppc but I have a problem testing  
> > such
> > changes: ppc-softmmu does not boot anything, ppc-linux-user does  
> > not seem
>
> ppc-softmmu is able to boot prep kernels (-M prep), but  
> unfortunately the
> support for this platform has been removed from upstream along with  
> the
> ppc/ arch (since 2.6.26).

According to Wikipedia, Debian and NetBSD still maintain PReP support.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_Reference_Platform

What's missing in QEMU's default g3bw machine that only PReP is known  
to work? I've tested booting into Debian 4.0 r4a netinst CD (2.6.18?)  
on a real PowerMac G3 blue&white and it works.

Does removal of "the ppc/ arch" in 2.6.26 above imply that recent  
Linux kernels will only work on ppc64 and power?

Andreas