Re: [Qemu-devel] Adding support for Mac OS X ppc64 host

[malc]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Andreas F?rber wrote:

> 
> Am 06.12.2009 um 06:14 schrieb malc:
> 
> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Andreas Faerber wrote:
> > 
> > > qemu-system-sparc64 works on ppc64 while it didn't on ppc!
> > 
> > Does it work on linux ppc64? If so
> 
> Haven't had a chance to test on other ppc[64] platforms yet.
> 
> > how exactly did you test that
> > (so that i can try to debug it here)
> 
> $ /Users/andreas/QEMU/latest64/bin/qemu-system-sparc64 -boot d -cdrom
> /Users/andreas/QEMU/sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-dvd.iso
> $ /Users/andreas/QEMU/latest64/bin/qemu-system-sparc64 -boot d -cdrom
> /Users/andreas/QEMU/debian-40r3-sparc-CD-1.iso
> 
> All these (also MilaX, in case you don't have Solaris 10 around) are expected
> to enter OpenBIOS and result in OpenBIOS errors but not in QEMU crashes or
> hangs.
> On Linux add -nographic.
> 

I was only able to find debian-40r3-sparc-netinst.iso here on ppc/linux
it boots (i think):

<snip snip>
boot: expert
Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
Loaded kernel version 2.6.18
Loading initial ramdisk (3882238 bytes at 0xC00000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)...
-
Remapping the kernel... done.
Booting Linux...

And it sits there while i'm losing patience..

Can you retry with netinst, if it behaves like CD-1 in your case the
problem is most likely confined to OSX, otherwise i would have to search
for CD-1 better.

> > > qemu-system-ppc appears to hang on ppc64 but doesn't on ppc.
> > 
> > Ditto.
> 
> $ /Users/andreas/QEMU/latest64/bin/qemu-system-ppc -boot d -cdrom
> /Users/andreas/QEMU/debian-40r4a-powerpc-netinst.iso
> 
> On OSX/ppc64 this never got past the OpenBIOS banner and eventually crashed:
> 
> Starting program: /Users/andreas/QEMU/latest64/bin/qemu-system-ppc -boot d
> -cdrom /Users/andreas/QEMU/debian-40r4a-powerpc-netinst.iso -nographic
> Reading symbols for shared libraries

[..snip..]

> 
> The upper bt showed something like helper_lsw only, iirc.
> 
> This is at QEMU 749717a0ea2f60d33d01c1e37fa24dfa7250dfc0, using the binary
> blobs on OSX/ppc64 and with or without latest OpenBIOS versions on OSX/ppc.

Thanks will try system-ppc later..

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