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

[Andreas Färber]

Am 06.12.2009 um 07:37 schrieb 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.

I tried with 4.0r8 businesscard: Such a hang I could reproduce on  
Linux/ppc and Linux/ppc64 and OSX/ppc64 and Linux/amd64 only when  
running with qemu-system-sparc64, but not with qemu-system-sparc.

Also, on Linux/ppc64, qemu and qemu-system-x86_64 render Haiku nightly  
image r34558 x86gcc2 unusable (desktop garbled, no cursor), while on  
Linux/ppc and OSX/ppc64 (r34514) and Linux/amd64 it works okay.

Andreas