Does KVM support the P.A. Semi PA6T cpu?

[Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky@xenosoft.de>]

On 29.04.2014 11:14, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
> On 28.04.14 16:19, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your answer. I checked dmesg yesterday but I didn't 
>> find any error messages about MOL or KVM. I played a bit with the 
>> emulated CPU types but without any success. I tried the VNC output 
>> and it works but it didn't solve the boot problem of Mac OS X. I have 
>> figured out, that there is a verbose mode. I have activated it in the 
>> molrc.osx (cmdline "-v"). I have started 2 MOL sessions. The first 
>> with Jaguar and the second with Tiger. Unfortunately, both aren't 
>> booting to the end.
>>
>> Screenshot:
>>
>> http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?mode=viewtopic&topic_id7652&forum4&start`&viewmode=flat&order=0 
>>
>> http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/viewtopic.php?f5&t"55&p'368#p27368 
>>
>>
>> Both are running in the G3 mode (molrc.osx: processor: G3). The G4 
>> mode doesn't work because MOL told me that AltiVec is unavailable; 
>> reverting to G3 mode. But AltiVec was activated in the molrc.osx. Do 
>> you have another idea, please?
>>
>> Have a nice week and thanks in advance.
>
> Please don't top post.
>
> Not sure what's going wrong here. Maybe the MOL patchery to circumvent 
> split real mode doesn't work? Maybe there's something not working with 
> the dcbz32 patchery?
>
> You could try to trace the guest through /sys/kernel/debug/tracing and 
> see where it's stuck. You can also tell XNU to be more verbose by 
> passing in a debug= parameter - though I don't remember the exact 
> syntax anymore.
Hi Alex,

I have traced a Mac OS X Tiger guest. I have started it in the single 
user mode. Sometimes I get a shell. But the cpu load rise up to 100% and 
I can't enter any commands.

Screenshot: 
http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/download/file.php?id\x1205&mode=view

Trace log: http://forum.hyperion-entertainment.biz/download/file.php?id\x1204

Could you look in the trace log, please? I can do more tests if you like.

Cheers,

Christian

>
> SMP should be fine. The reason XNU doesn't work with QEMU + KVM is 
> split real mode. We don't emulate that one properly in KVM yet.
>
>
> Alex
>
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