From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54452 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q5jtX-0006bL-RL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:20:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jtW-0001gk-Si for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:20:31 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f45.google.com ([209.85.213.45]:56376) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q5jtW-0001gV-QD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:20:30 -0400 Received: by ywl41 with SMTP id 41so1806831ywl.4 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4D962578.8010802@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:20:24 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [0/27] Implement emulation of pSeries logical partitions (v6) References: <1301631334-30795-1-git-send-email-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <4D960B3C.6080107@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexander Graf Cc: David Gibson , paulus@samba.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, anton@samba.org On 04/01/2011 01:01 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > On 01.04.2011, at 19:28, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On 03/31/2011 11:15 PM, David Gibson wrote: >>> This patch series adds a "pseries" machine to qemu, allowing it to >>> emulate IBM pSeries logical partitions. More specifically it >>> implements the interface defined by the "PowerPC Architecture Platform >>> Requirements" document (PAPR, or sPAPR for short). >>> >>> Along the way we add a bunch of support for more modern ppc CPUs than >>> are currently supported. It also makes some significant cleanups to >>> the translation code for hash page table based ppc MMUs. >>> >>> Please apply. >> So what's a typical invocation for this? Is: >> >> qemu-system-ppc64 -m pseries foo.img -nographics > If you run an image that requires firmare, you also need to pass in -m with at least 512MB, otherwise yes, that's how it works :). FYI, trying to do a Debian install results in: Trying to write invalid spr 536 218 at 00000000014034d4 Followed by a tight loop of writing empty characters to the serial port. My command is: ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -cdrom ~/isos/debian-6.0.1a-powerpc-DVD-1.iso -boot d -m 512 -serial vc -monitor stdio -M pseries Regards, Anthony Liguori > Alex > >