From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DviXs-0006xI-6D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:25:32 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DviXr-0006wr-5s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:25:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DviWx-0006LQ-KV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:24:35 -0400 Received: from [62.210.158.41] (helo=moscou.magic.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DviLz-000736-A1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:13:15 -0400 Received: from private2 (ppp-181.net-555.magic.fr [62.210.255.181]) by moscou.magic.fr (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id j6LL37u18050 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:03:07 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware question From: "J. Mayer" In-Reply-To: <1121957136.8111.40.camel@wombat.dlib.indiana.edu> References: <1121355157.14191.6.camel@wombat.dlib.indiana.edu> <1121892569.9483.23.camel@rapid> <1121956247.8111.24.camel@wombat.dlib.indiana.edu> <1121957136.8111.40.camel@wombat.dlib.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:00:42 +0200 Message-Id: <1121979642.9483.82.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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:45 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > After checking strings it looks like bootfile.exe is a bootloader that > pounds openfirmware rather extensively. > > Hmm. Is there a way to load a real ibm firmware into qemu? Since I > have access to machines it might be an interesting experiment. You can try to replace the Open Hack'Ware image by an IBM BIOS. I tried this long ago and it did not work, but a lot of things have been improved in Qemu since then. But maybe we need a hardware emulation closer to some IBM machine, not a generic PREP, for this to work. > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:30 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:49 +0200, J. Mayer wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:32 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote: > > > > All of the websites that are referred to in the docs and source are > > > > missing. Is there another place to get it? I'm tinkering with the idea > > > > to try to boot aix on qemu. > > > > > > There was a broken link. > > > I just fixed it. > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > 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. It might be interesting to see what that > > file actually does (i.e. if its the kernel or a boot loader) > > > > Brian -- J. Mayer Never organized