On 02.04.2011, at 02:09, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 04/01/2011 07:06 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> On 02.04.2011, at 01:21, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >>> On 01.04.2011, at 21:22, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>>> On 04/01/2011 01:01 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>>>> On 01.04.2011, at 19:28, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 03/31/2011 11:15 PM, David Gibson wrote: >>>>>>> This patch series adds a "pseries" machine to qemu, allowing it to >>>>>>> emulate IBM pSeries logical partitions. More specifically it >>>>>>> implements the interface defined by the "PowerPC Architecture Platform >>>>>>> Requirements" document (PAPR, or sPAPR for short). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Along the way we add a bunch of support for more modern ppc CPUs than >>>>>>> are currently supported. It also makes some significant cleanups to >>>>>>> the translation code for hash page table based ppc MMUs. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Please apply. >>>>>> So what's a typical invocation for this? Is: >>>>>> >>>>>> qemu-system-ppc64 -m pseries foo.img -nographics >>>>> If you run an image that requires firmare, you also need to pass in -m >>>>> with at least 512MB, otherwise yes, that's how it works :). >>>> >>>> Here's the output on the serial console. Looks like it's in a tight loop >>>> probably writing \r or something and redrawing the prompt which our >>>> console emulation doesn't like. >>>> >>>> E3406: Client application returned an error: undefined word >>>> >>>> ..`. .. ....... .. ...... ....... >>>> ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''. .`''```''`. `''`````` >>>> .`` .:' ': `''..... .''. ''` .''..''....... >>>> ``.':.';. ``````''`.''. .''. ''``''`````'` >>>> ``.':':` .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'` >>>> .`.`'`` .'`'`````. ``'''''' ``''`'''`. `'` >>>> Type 'boot' and press return to continue booting the system. >>>> Type 'reset-all' and press return to reboot the system. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ( 700 ) Program Exception [ 1 ] >>> This probably means that you're trying to run a ppc32 kernel :). No >>> promises on that guess though. >> Yup, manually specifying "install64" works. > > Ah, perfect! I guess I'm showing my naivety when it comes to Power here :-)
Well, the bootloader should actually be able to detect if it needs to load the ppc64 or ppc32 kernel. I'm not sure why it doesn't. It's either a bug in Debian or in SLOF :). Alex
