Re: [Qemu-ppc] Booting AIX on qemu-system-ppc, kernel not started successfully

[Thomas Huth]

Am Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:14:46 +0800
schrieb Liang Guo <address@hidden>:

> Hi, 
> 
> I use the latest IBM standalone Diagnostics CD to test AIX on qemu/ppc, 
> IBM standalone diagnostics CD can be downloaded from:
> 
>   http://www-304.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/diags/download/home.html
> 
> I use the following command line to start qemu:
> 
>   qemu-system-ppc64 -cpu POWER7 -machine pseries -m 1024 -serial stdio \
>   -cdrom /u01/vm/CDlatest.iso -monitor \
>   unix:/tmp/ppc64-aix,server,nowait -nographic
> 
[...]
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                                 Welcome to AIX.
>                    boot image timestamp: 22:26:29 01/06/2012
>         processor count: 1;  memory size: 1024MB;  kernel size: 35060059
>       boot device: 
> /vdevice/address@hidden/address@hidden,0:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe
> 
> C000FFEC bytes of free memory remain at address 3FFF0014
> load address: 0x00004000   aixmon size: 0x000CBC00   boot image size: 
> 0x016B4D40
> 
> AIX 
> 
> 
> get-property for #bytes on zero phandle

I know only one device tree node that normally uses a property called
"#bytes" - and that's the device tree node for NVRAM. As far as I know,
NVRAM emulation is still missing in the pseries model of Qemu, so that
might be one of the reasons that AIX does not run there yet.

 Thomas