Re: [PATCH v4] target/ppc: fix Hash64 MMU update of PTE bit R

[Leandro Lupori]

On 30/11/2021 05:44, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> It would be interesting to boot directly the PowerNV machine from a
> FreeBSB kernel and a minimum inirtd without using the skiroot images
> and an iso. Are images available ?

AFAIK there are no minimum initrd images available. The closest thing 
would be the "bootonly" ISOs that can be found in the links below:

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/powerpc/powerpc64le/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/powerpc/powerpc64/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/

https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/powerpc/powerpc64le/ISO-IMAGES/14.0/


But to avoid using skiroot, you would need to manually extract the 
kernel from the ISO and also specify the rootfs, using something like: 
"-append cd9660:cd0".
If you don't want to emulate a disk or cd, the ISO can be passed to 
-initrd and "-append cd9660:md0" may be used to tell FreeBSD where to 
find the root partition (it loads it as a memory disk).

There are also qcow2 snapshots available:

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/14.0-CURRENT/latest/powerpc/powerpc64/

https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/14.0-CURRENT/latest/powerpc/powerpc64le/

But you'll also need to extract the kernel from the image or from 
kernel.txz to boot them.
As these images target pseries and lack a FAT32 partition, Petitboot 
won't be able to boot them.

Alfredo (cc'ed) was trying to make them Petitboot compatible.