From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41352 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q78Q8-0001eE-NS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:43:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q78Q7-0008Tq-EL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:43:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.siriusit.co.uk ([81.187.123.5]:59313) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q78Q7-0008Sl-85 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:43:55 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.137] by smtp.siriusit.co.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q78Pz-0001oH-43 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:43:47 +0000 Message-ID: <4D9B38AD.4030608@siriusit.co.uk> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:43:41 +0100 From: Mark Cave-Ayland MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Help Debugging AIX boot on qemu-system-ppc (it reads bootfile.exe now) References: <153009.66346.qm@web110407.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1301950332.20126.41.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <1301950332.20126.41.camel@nibbler.dlib.indiana.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 04/04/11 21:52, Brian Wheeler wrote: > Booting AIX 5.2 gives me > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Welcome to AIX. > boot image timestamp: 70:80 15/C0 > The current time and date: 20:40:45 04/04/2011 > number of processors: 1 size of memory: 2047Mb > boot device: cd:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe > Validation failed: the "/rtas" device node does not exist. > EXIT > > > So at least for earlier versions of AIX there are still missing firmware > bits. > > Brian Ah yes - I know Andreas was working to try and add PPC64 support to OpenBIOS a few months back, and he got stuck trying to interface to RTAS. I'm not sure whether he got anywhere with PPC32 though. At the moment Andreas is away, but if you are able to offer some development resource to help with this then please come and join us over on the OpenBIOS list and get the discussion started there. ATB, Mark. -- Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect PostgreSQL - PostGIS Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom http://www.siriusit.co.uk t: +44 870 608 0063 Sirius Labs: http://www.siriusit.co.uk/labs -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.