Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware question

[Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>]

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 16:54 +0200, Karel Gardas wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> 
> >> But, for your information, AIX boot has been tested and does not boot.
> >> The reason is it use a specific boot file format (with AIXM magic at
> >> start) and I did not spent any time to discover where is stored the code
> >> offset (but I know what the offset value is).
> >> As reported in OHW README, I did test AIX 4.3.3 & 5.1.
> >>
> >
> > Would booting the bootfile.exe from the CD directly via -kernel be a
> > future option to work around the AIXM magic?  The exe looks to be a
> > standard ELF file for powerpc.

Yes, you should be able to do this.
It may fail if the ELF is to be called with special parameters set up by
a first stage bootloader.

> That would be cool, since this will also help me with booting 
> RTEMS/PowerPC apps (which are also standard multi-boot elfs)
> Unfortunately, I've not been able to come with any patch for this yet...

You should be able to boot an ELF image using -kernel option.
Or it has been broken once again...
I have to check this point.

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Jocelyn Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
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