From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B992J-0004K3-Aa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:43:39 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B990Y-0002by-TG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:42:23 -0500 Received: from [194.109.24.13] (helo=smtp-out3.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B98zt-00021G-3D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:41:09 -0500 Received: from olifantasia.com (a213-84-8-196.adsl.xs4all.nl [213.84.8.196]) by smtp-out3.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i31Kf4EV050188 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:41:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <406C7EB0.6080806@olifantasia.com> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:42:24 +0200 From: nldudok1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] PowerPC system emulation status 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 Can anybody (Jocelyn ?) tell me the status and availability of the powerpc system emulation? I have been trying for a long time to run a powerpc kernel on a x86 machine. A few years back I used psim but never got further than a ppc netbsd kernel booting and crashing halfwaydown (linux kernel crashing too) The problems. Understanding and making a working openfirmware devicetree How to boot a kernel and putting it in the right space in memory. How to get a working console and network. Now I am trying to use the powerpc system emulation in Qemu to try to run a powerpc linux in it but I am running into similar problems. I found out there is not yet a powerpcbios and tried to use the openfirmware image and linux kernel from my rs6000 ( a 7043-140 prep machine running debian) (IBM openfirmware for rs6000 machines can be downloaded at http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/mdownload/download.html) I tried changing the sources to get it to load and run the firmware or linux kernel but didn't succeed. I disabled running the vga bios because I thought that was one of the problems but that didn't help. > Current PPC system emulation status is: I can launch Linux and a shell in it and use it. That's all. Is there a way to get these patches so I can try this too or have you already merged it with Fabrice's commits? With a little luck some day Qemu should be able to run a linux kernel and a complete partition dump of my rs6000 prep debianppc installation. (This would include a working mac-on-linux ;-) > For now, I use PREP, because my first goal is to eliminate PPC CPU emulation bugs. As PREP is nearly a PC with a PPC CPU, I can re-use current Qemu hardware emulation, which make things simpler... The only thing I got for recent Mac emulation is OpenPIC (good start). Good enough for me. Greetings, Martin