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

[malc]

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, Andreas F?rber wrote:

> 
> 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.

So the problem is in no way limited to ppc, good to know.
 
> 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.

That's vga/display issue (have you tried -vga std ?, FranГois REVOL 
mentioned that it works with one of those and doesn't work with others)

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