Re: [Qemu-ppc] [OpenBIOS] FreeBSD powerpc issue

[Segher Boessenkool]

> > > Phew. I honestly have no idea how this would work at all even on
> > > Apple HW. Linux simply handles everything from real mode (disable
> > > paging) when going into anything firmware related. I have no idea
> > > what OpenBSD does. If you could try to find out and summarize it, I
> > > might be able to reconstruct how it could work :).
> >
> > Perhaps the OpenBSD code did not flush the TLB yet?  Or does QEMU
> > emulate the TLB properly?  I seriously doubt that :-)
>
> Hm, s/OpenBSD/FreeBSD. :)

I have no idea :-)

> How do I flush the TLB?

tlbie, and perhaps tlbsync.

> Then I can look up in the code and see where it is done. I guess we  
> do that but the place/time might be the question.
> (Otherwise it wouldn't work on real HW, right?)

That is my theory, yes.

> > The logs do not show whether segment x'f is still mapped in the
> > SRs (or I missed it).  Is it?
>
> How can I enable this log or make it visible?

I have no idea.


Segher