Re: [Qemu-ppc] pSeries target

[Thomas Huth]

Am Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:51:39 +0200
schrieb folkert <address@hidden>:

> > > > > open("/usr/local/qemu/share/qemu/slof.bin", O_RDONLY) = 9
> > > > also with:
> > > > /usr/local/qemu/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries -cpu POWER7_v2.3 -m
> > > > 512 -cdrom /home/folkert/CD51025.iso -boot d -nographic
> > > > by the way 
> > > 
> > > Could be something in your ISO that SLOF (our firmware) doesn't like.
> > > The first thing to try is to update to the latest qemu/SLOF combination.
> > > Also what is this CD image ? Is this something I can download somewhere
> > > to try to debug what's going on with SLOF ?
> > 
> > Ah found it, its AIX diag images... try a newer one, for some reason the
> > old one won't work, possibly because it doesn't recognize the emulated
> > CPU (Power7).
> > Of course it won't go far :-) You'll get a banner message and that's it,
> > nobody has looked into supporting AIX in there at this point (and I
> > doubt anybody from IBM will, so if that's ever going to happen it will
> > have to come from the community).
> 
> Would you like to be posted on any findings if I give it a try?
> Gave it a try with GIT from yesterday evening and an AIX 7.1
> installation DVD.
> Things I noticed were the 'kernel size: 0' and the zero 'boot image
> timestamp:'.

I think you need at least to adjust the load-base like it has been
described here:

 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2012-02/msg00048.html

That might help a little bit with the bootloader, but the kernel most
likely still will not work yet, I guess.

 Thomas