From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXY1j-0004vo-BB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 01:20:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DXWqP-0005As-1N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 00:04:41 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXUcr-00021i-Om for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 21:42:33 -0400 Received: from [62.210.190.9] (helo=brazzaville.magic.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DXUh9-0005Eb-Cu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 15 May 2005 21:46:59 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] booting linux 2.6 in qemu-system-ppc From: "J. Mayer" In-Reply-To: <1116160138.11548.4.camel@localhost> References: <1116115668.25230.1.camel@localhost> <1116159184.12010.88.camel@rapid> <1116160138.11548.4.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 03:39:12 +0200 Message-Id: <1116207552.15980.30.camel@rapid> Mime-Version: 1.0 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: Johannes Berg Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 14:28 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > Hi, > > > I just checked: I don't have to remove the VGA device to be able to boot > > 2.6 kernel on serial port. Just have to give it the following arguments > > to the kernel (and of course, use a kernel with the PC serial port > > support compiled in): > > console=ttyS0 console=tty0 > > Odd. I didn't test with console=tty0 in addition to console=ttyS0. Did > you use the bochs VBE stuff? That works here. Except that both vga cards > manage to kill my xorg xserver, so I'm not really into running with a > vga card. I don't have this problem using XFree (on Debian Sarge). It may be related to xorg. > > > Note that the Open-Firmware frame-buffer support is broken in many 2.6 > > kernels (I mean on real Macs) and that most distributions install CDROM > > don't have support for PC serial ports. Then, to be able to have video > > console with any 2.6 based distribution, I'm afraid we'll need to have > > an ATI Radeon emulation. > > You can also notice that we don't emulation Mac serial ports, in Qemu. > > Yeah, I was testing the kernel so I did it all by myself, including root > (just some busybox stuff) and kernel config. What I did is use a Debian Sarge (with a 2.4 kernel) then install a 2.6 kernel. Everything works all right, then, including XFree. The only drawback is to have no framebuffer console. > -- J. Mayer Never organized