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[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFT] ppc64 OpenBIOS
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Blue Swirl |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: [RFT] ppc64 OpenBIOS |
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Sat, 18 Dec 2010 16:33:03 +0000 |
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Except for some fs/iso9660/ issues, ppc64 guests are booting for me with the
> last five OpenBIOS patches posted.
What are the issues?
>
> You can find them together with the config change to use fs/grubfs/ here:
>
> git://repo.or.cz/openbios/afaerber.git ppc64-boot
>
> Please test your favorite ppc64 kernels and images with
> obj-ppc64/openbios-qemu.elf!
Passes my simple tests. The only problem is that building forthstrap
on a 64 bit host fails.
> If I don't hear of regressions, I'll commit those patches. Once that is done
> and the iso9660 issues hopefully fixed, I would ask for Blue to commit
> openbios-ppc and openbios-ppc64 blobs to QEMU. I'll then prepare a QEMU
> patch to switch the default qemu-system-ppc64 ppc_newworld.c BIOS from
> openbios-ppc to openbios-ppc64.
I think openbios-ppc should be renamed to openbios-ppc32 for
consistency with Sparc naming.