Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware question

["J. Mayer" <l_indien@magic.fr>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:45 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> After checking strings it looks like bootfile.exe is a bootloader that
> pounds openfirmware rather extensively.
> 
> Hmm.  Is there a way to load a real ibm firmware into qemu?  Since I
> have access to machines it might be an interesting experiment.

You can try to replace the Open Hack'Ware image by an IBM BIOS.
I tried this long ago and it did not work, but a lot of things have been
improved in Qemu since then.
But maybe we need a hardware emulation closer to some IBM machine, not a
generic PREP, for this to work.
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:30 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:49 +0200, J. Mayer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:32 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > > > All of the websites that are referred to in the docs and source are
> > > > missing.  Is there another place to get it?  I'm tinkering with the idea
> > > > to try to boot aix on qemu.
> > > 
> > > There was a broken link.
> > > I just fixed it.
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > > But, for your information, AIX boot has been tested and does not boot.
> > > The reason is it use a specific boot file format (with AIXM magic at
> > > start) and I did not spent any time to discover where is stored the code
> > > offset (but I know what the offset value is).
> > > As reported in OHW README, I did test AIX 4.3.3 & 5.1.
> > > 
> > 
> > Would booting the bootfile.exe from the CD directly via -kernel be a
> > future option to work around the AIXM magic?  The exe looks to be a
> > standard ELF file for powerpc.  It might be interesting to see what that
> > file actually does (i.e. if its the kernel or a boot loader)
> > 
> > Brian

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J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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