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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 12:28:06 -0500
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Subject: Re: Building ppc/powerpc kernel to run under QEMU.
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From: linas@austin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
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Hi Rob,

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:03:25PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> I've been puttering around with my Firmware Linux project trying to add
> powerpc as a supported platform.  I can build kernels that qemu can boot (such
> as a "prep" kernel) using ARCH=ppc, but that one doesn't support make
> headers_install.
> 
> Using ARCH=powerpc makes headers_install work, but there's no kernel .config 
> I've been able to come up with that generates a kernel I can boot under qemu.

Hmm. I'm not a boot expert, (although many people on this list are). 
Any hint of where the boot is failing?  Maybe qemu is not setting up
a device tree? 

> what's the status of the 
> ppc->powerpc migration, 

pretty far along; bits f ppc are getting nuked regularly.

> and is there any known way to get ARCH=powerpc to 
> build a kernel qemu can boot?

Dunno...

--linas