From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvcpb-0006su-4R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:19:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DvcpM-0006k1-VV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:19:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvcpM-0006i7-Q6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:19:12 -0400 Received: from [62.210.158.41] (helo=moscou.magic.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dvcsw-0000Q8-EE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:22:54 -0400 Received: from jma4.dev.netgem.com (gw.netgem.com [195.68.2.34]) by moscou.magic.fr (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j6LFCpu01581 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:12:51 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware question From: Jocelyn Mayer In-Reply-To: References: <1121355157.14191.6.camel@wombat.dlib.indiana.edu> <1121892569.9483.23.camel@rapid> <1121956247.8111.24.camel@wombat.dlib.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:12:04 +0200 Message-Id: <1121958724.32103.75.camel@jma4.dev.netgem.com> 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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. -- Jocelyn Mayer Never organized