Re: [Qemu-devel] svn 6658 broke powerpc.

[Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009 03:41:05 Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 18.03.2009, at 00:57, Rob Landley wrote:
> > Up through svn 6657, I could boot a powerpc kernel with -kernel.
> > That commit
> > changed it so now it says:
> > invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) fff18f00 1
> > invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) fff18f04 1
> > invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 0c - 06 (00009198) 00009214 0
> >
> > And dies.
> >
> > You can grab a test kernel from http://landley.net/zImage-powerpc
> > and try
> > booting it (out of the qemu source directory, this is assuming
> > you've built it
> > but haven't installed it yet) via:
> >
> > ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -kernel zImage-powerpc \
> >  -append "console=ttyS0 panic=1" -nographic -no-reboot -L pc-bios
> >
> > With svn 6657, it works.  (You get kernel boot messages up until it
> > panics and
> > dies because it can't find the root filesystem).  With 6658 it dies
> > immediately with the above error message.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this means that the 0.10.0 release doesn't work for
> > powerpc for
> > me, but svn a couple days _before_ the release did.
>
> That specific commit shouldn't have changed anything with respect to
> ppc32 emulation. The one where your command broken is the openBIOS
> update.

The commit I pointed to is the openbios update, yes.

> Please try again without -nographic.

It does indeed work without nographic.  (It doesn't do anything _useful_ for 
me without nographic, since I'm scripting the emulated kernel's behavior 
through stdin and stdout, but allowing it to pop up an SDL window does make it 
out of openbios and into the kernel.)

> Alex

Thanks,

Rob