Re: [Qemu-devel] Help Debugging AIX boot on qemu-system-ppc (it reads bootfile.exe now)

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 04/04/11 21:52, Brian Wheeler wrote:

> Booting AIX 5.2 gives me
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                  Welcome to AIX.
>                         boot image timestamp: 70:80 15/C0
>                   The current time and date: 20:40:45 04/04/2011
>                  number of processors: 1    size of memory: 2047Mb
> boot device: cd:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe
> Validation failed: the "/rtas" device node does not exist.
> EXIT
>
>
> So at least for earlier versions of AIX there are still missing firmware
> bits.
>
> Brian

Ah yes - I know Andreas was working to try and add PPC64 support to 
OpenBIOS a few months back, and he got stuck trying to interface to 
RTAS. I'm not sure whether he got anywhere with PPC32 though.

At the moment Andreas is away, but if you are able to offer some 
development resource to help with this then please come and join us over 
on the OpenBIOS list and get the discussion started there.


ATB,

Mark.

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