Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6)

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/01/2011 01:01 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 01.04.2011, at 19:28, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> > On 03/31/2011 11:15 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> > > This patch series adds a "pseries" machine to qemu, allowing it to
> > > emulate IBM pSeries logical partitions.  More specifically it
> > > implements the interface defined by the "PowerPC Architecture Platform
> > > Requirements" document (PAPR, or sPAPR for short).
> > >
> > > Along the way we add a bunch of support for more modern ppc CPUs than
> > > are currently supported.  It also makes some significant cleanups to
> > > the translation code for hash page table based ppc MMUs.
> > >
> > > Please apply.
> > So what's a typical invocation for this?  Is:
> >
> > qemu-system-ppc64 -m pseries foo.img -nographics
> If you run an image that requires firmare, you also need to pass in -m with at 
> least 512MB, otherwise yes, that's how it works :).

FYI, trying to do a Debian install results in:

Trying to write invalid spr 536 218 at 00000000014034d4

Followed by a tight loop of writing empty characters to the serial port.

My command is:

ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom 
~/isos/debian-6.0.1a-powerpc-DVD-1.iso -boot d -m 512 -serial vc 
-monitor stdio -M pseries

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Alex