From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZrmd-0001SH-9A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:36:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZrmb-0001Rb-NG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:36:18 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59245 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZrmb-0001RY-Fa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:36:17 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([91.121.138.14]:46078) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZrmb-00070P-5m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:36:17 -0400 Received: from aurel32 by hall.aurel32.net with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KZrmZ-0005u7-3R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:36:15 +0200 Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:36:15 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an SH4 QEMU-ready kernel (for TCG conversion) Message-ID: <20080831183615.GA11830@hall.aurel32.net> References: <20080828211732.GA8869@volta.aurel32.net> <20080829222907.GC1068@volta.aurel32.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: Aurelien Jarno Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:36:36PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > > Am 30.08.2008 um 00:29 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > > >On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:12:13PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Am 28.08.2008 um 23:17 schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > >> > >>>By the way, patches > >>>for the PPC and Alpha target are also welcome. > >> > >>I'd be interested in helping with ppc but I have a problem testing > >>such > >>changes: ppc-softmmu does not boot anything, ppc-linux-user does > >>not seem > > > >ppc-softmmu is able to boot prep kernels (-M prep), but > >unfortunately the > >support for this platform has been removed from upstream along with > >the > >ppc/ arch (since 2.6.26). > > According to Wikipedia, Debian and NetBSD still maintain PReP support. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_Reference_Platform This is now mostly wrong, PReP support in Debian has been removed from unstable just after the release of Etch. Debian Lenny won't support it. > What's missing in QEMU's default g3bw machine that only PReP is known > to work? I've tested booting into Debian 4.0 r4a netinst CD (2.6.18?) > on a real PowerMac G3 blue&white and it works. A decent BIOS. > Does removal of "the ppc/ arch" in 2.6.26 above imply that recent > Linux kernels will only work on ppc64 and power? > The ppc/ arch is a new way of supporting both PowerPC and PowerPC64 machines. The CPU support is the same, but it only supports machines that have been ported to this new arch. Theoretically it is possible to add PReP support to the ppc/ arch, but nobody cares anymore about PReP. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net