Re: [Qemu-devel] More PPC emulation fixes

[Thayne Harbaugh <thayne@realmsys.com>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 15:51 +0100, J. Mayer wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 18:52, Thayne Harbaugh wrote:

> > I've been using the patches for a bit now.  All of my previously
> > reported problems are gone.
> 
> Great !
> I think most of qemu PPC cpu emulation bugs are now fixed.
> I still know two problems that seems related to emulation:
> - top in Debian Sarge crashes.

I've noticed the same thing.

> - Debian woody installer crashes.
> 
> Other problems seem OHW or hardware emulation related.

I'm supposed to be looking at some of these, but lately I've had to
focus on some other things outside of qemu/OHW.  Hopefully I can get
back to this soon.

>  For example ne2k
> seems to miss MII related stuff emulation, then most automatic hardware
> probes stay stuck while checking the network device.

I don't think I've had this problem - or maybe I just don't recognize
it.

> I played a lot with qemu this week-end, recompiled kernels and qemu in
> the emulated machine. Then I was able to run qemu x86 emulation under
> qemu-ppc (but that's really slooooow...). 
> I was also able to launch ppc user emulation but missed memory to launch
> ppc system emulation.
> I'm also re-compiling MOL to try to launch Mac OS X using it ;-)

Very cool.

> I did put some screenshots of Qemu running Debian Sarge for PPC here:
> <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/qemu-ppc/snapshots/index.html>

Interesting.