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 1B9PWs-0006qP-80 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:20:18 -0500 Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B9PWD-0006Wj-Jz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 09:20:08 -0500 Received: from [62.210.190.9] (helo=brazzaville.magic.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B9P6B-0000nd-B3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:52:43 -0500 Received: from jma1.dev.netgem.com (gw.netgem.com [195.68.2.34]) by brazzaville.magic.fr (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i32Dqew09975 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 2004 15:52:40 +0200 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PowerPC system emulation status From: Jocelyn Mayer In-Reply-To: <406C7EB0.6080806@olifantasia.com> References: <406C7EB0.6080806@olifantasia.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080914207.13141.62.camel@jma1.dev.netgem.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 02 Apr 2004 15:56:48 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu mailing list On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 22:42, nldudok1 wrote: > Can anybody (Jocelyn ?) tell me the status and availability of the > powerpc system emulation? Hi, for now, I'm fighting to merge latest changes from CVS. I want to submit a big set of patches for next qemu version... Current CVS cannot launch PPC systems. > 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) Thanks for this tip ! I fetched the whole CDROM, and I'll try to add a correct OpenBIOS loader as soon as possible. > 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 ;-) Yes, this will be possible when the MMU emulation will be fixed. I still have some crashes when my initial shell forks, so it's quite "difficult" to launch a real distribution. Could you build a tiny system disks for me to test more on your PREP machine ? I'd like to be have a static busybox disk and a dynamic one. For now, I build cross-compiled images and this can be another source of problems... I'd also like to have a real kernel configuration for PREP. I did some 2.4 & 2.6 kernel, intuiting parameters, but I'd like to know what is correct on a real machine and see if I missed some hw parameters on my emulated hardware. -- Jocelyn Mayer Never organized