Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 13:38:20 -0400 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-powerpc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-powerpc@freebsd.org>, "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk> Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD-ppc/ppc64 on emulators? Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOu_OEM3jNfK2NFUbKD2pQT_KiCPnEjQAL7YTiOftdEyKw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <486EFD03-4770-466B-83E8-3E3D61D9B793@gmail.com> References: <CAGHfRMAUDAV9OYWJsEvyv3z2-UAD5bSzbPQRZGTyiysNCNqE4A@mail.gmail.com> <CA%2BWntOtA9ob-8UGW_taa8RQ-AEOsWGWwJOBO6R1CQRpEmwNeYA@mail.gmail.com> <53D24103.3090603@ilande.co.uk> <486EFD03-4770-466B-83E8-3E3D61D9B793@gmail.com>
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On Friday, July 25, 2014, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jul 25, 2014, at 4:35, Mark Cave-Ayland < > mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> On 23/07/14 00:24, Joe Nosay wrote: > >> > >> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com > <javascript:;> > >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','yaneurabeya@gmail.com <javascript:;>');>> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> I tried getting FreeBSD-ppc/-ppc64 to run on qemu recently with > >> the 9/10/11 release media and I ran into boot issues (or probably > user > >> error in booting up qemu with the images) -- the image would hang > >> right around mountroot. > >> I was wondering if anyone has a working recipe for how I would > >> start up qemu with powerpc, or if there was an alternative piece of > >> software available for emulating powerpc that could be used in > general > >> purpose automation? > >> Thank you :)! > >> -Garrett > >> _______________________________________________ > >> freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org <javascript:;> mailing list > >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org <javascript:;>" > >> > >> > >> You need to send these types of queries to the qemu-ppc lists. On the > >> qemu-ppc list, please check the original email and forward the answers > >> to Mr Cooper. > > > > Hi Garrett, > > > > I'm not strictly a PPC developer, however I do spend a lot of time > developing and testing OpenBIOS for SPARC and as part of this tend to test > various PPC images to ensure that no regressions are introduced. > > > > As you noted FreeBSD-ppc gets fairly far these days; I can imagine that > you're either seeing an issue with properties on PCI devices or possibly a > bug in machine emulation. Can you share the command line you are using to > launch QEMU? > > > > While I don't have the ability to look at this myself, I suspect anyone > with a debug PPC kernel setup would be able to find the issue fairly > easily. I tend to be around on the qemu-ppc list so if anyone is interested > enough to participate, please start a thread there and I'll pick it up > there. > > Hi Mark, > Nathan Whitehorn from FreeBSD replied to me earlier on this week and > provided some hints for getting qemu working with ppc64. I'll try booting > FreeBSD again this weekend with qemu to see whether or not his hints work. > If I run into any issues I'll be sure to email the list :). > Thanks! > -Garrett Thanks, for helping out Mr Cooper.
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