Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:07:21 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Fwd: sorting out this power8 box! Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmok7inQwxSd=2c7W0Ck1ATYOuNcFy58yWfMTjT_JLxUK_Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <DACDEA25-CEE9-4AEC-93E8-F9BFF3E96B63@me.com> References: <CAJ-Vmon%2BwoTT=ni_GZjXcJG=tVnXySpNXgu=Md1Ko2f3fUG=hQ@mail.gmail.com> <EC56C108-0F4A-4B3B-BACB-4369F237979B@me.com> <186A61AE-E332-4353-B79A-10DBAD5C6DCA@me.com> <CAJ-VmomeBEM7WhLXxR%2B49ZswiMSdLLXZJ=eDGGV%2BChigH8rdvA@mail.gmail.com> <E4CB9E2B-A1B2-478D-8033-A4FABD3CF335@me.com> <CAJ-VmomjMUeCvHo0tyBa3wgRbWfSy%2BBhAs4ZZwWT6jw93ETSmg@mail.gmail.com> <7AFDF96E-C4BD-44D7-A0EB-BEB2CCC99C62@me.com> <CAJ-Vmo=-nHpoL7vb7nAAks3SeUT5EBy34ivXHQDJt7T6f_8c1w@mail.gmail.com> <F52FF792-5A3C-4855-8603-807C4B51228F@me.com> <CAJ-VmomigSmN7PXte1=c5z1HrukpS3B5AsZ%2BgvnUe%2BVJRFjDKw@mail.gmail.com> <E9281E3F-6777-4E26-862D-CE900D300B34@me.com> <CAJ-VmokO4F2H4=Z-JZNUkRZ1nsnTKVBs5SpysvJzvA_J3zwc0w@mail.gmail.com> <BAE8FA88-2A53-49AB-BCD9-F462BD91EC04@me.com> <CAJ-Vmont4tRUwEGurJAgUy5XLomCoieDrYwDibLb3Cso2gcVnQ@mail.gmail.com> <C84474A8-CDCC-4131-AFC2-EE8A95F3AFB1@me.com> <CAJ-VmomSz%2Bix5zw3R4Wcjr6yq-9YYkTLBC-jGuG_Thx4AFb4mw@mail.gmail.com> <DACDEA25-CEE9-4AEC-93E8-F9BFF3E96B63@me.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steven Peterson <steven.c.peterson@me.com> Date: 5 January 2015 at 09:20 Subject: Re: sorting out this power8 box! To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Here is the note Problem: QCOW2 can cause corruption under some stress conditions. Solution: Consider using RAW disk image.As such, the default for Kimchi is to also use RAW disk image format. It is on the Power Linux Wiki https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/W51a7ffcf4dfd_4b40_9d82_446ebc23c550/page/IBM%20PowerKVM%202.1.1%20Known%20Issues%20and%20Readme On Jan 5, 2015, at 11:22, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: hi! On 5 January 2015 at 04:27, Steven Peterson <steven.c.peterson@me.com> wrote: Btw found a note in the IBM on about corruption of the disk using powerkvm and qcow2 image format might that be the issue you where describing? URL? -adrian Steven Peterson Sent from my iPhone please excuse my brevity and spelling On Jan 4, 2015, at 23:09, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: Hey! So, we got the basics booting on the hypervisor but nathan hit a roadblock with the virtualised storage layer getting garbage. It works on the emulators, but not on the qemu-kvm setup that the hypervisor platform uses. He got a bootloader working on bare metal and the kernel loaded enough to printf("hello, world") right at the beginning out the serial port. He wrote a kexec bootloader that will suck in FreeBSD and call kexec to boot it. He was using a PS3 to debug it, as the PS3 already runs FreeBSD and it also uses an embedded Linux as a bootloader that uses kexec. :) So, progress. There's apparently a whole bunch of infrastructure code that needs writing before we can speak to the rest of the device tree on the metal. But now that we have the basics up and running the progress should be nice and quick. (God it's loud!) -adrian On 4 January 2015 at 12:38, Steven Peterson <steven.c.peterson@me.com> wrote: How goes the hackathon? On Dec 30, 2014, at 15:54, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: Hi, Thanks. We need some more bootloader support before we can boot - apparently the firmware for these things uses linux and it kexec's a new kernel to boot. So we need support for that framework. Nathan is working on that this week. Ok, so for the serial ports, what kind of serial ports are they? I'm likely going to have to acquire DB9/DB25 hardware to match.. :) -adrian [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUqsgGAAoJEPHvFQFP+7ph/vAP/A+KhzViXQ5rEc3OJ6Jo+UGP 2DwAfO7UwXBoQSDkiUuAJqbs+5e9FFuFAwI+Z/ISCkfaYZBW3X5ez9mt6dNjqXPB F0ipOBlFxpHjvq1lvL5MM5OojVTJvGOL42/tI4aGHGgsaKkEmIm7ihfiKZS5yc1u lWz39rWlzSDPDoMoTjsowcMQdOOTax1k8qDp8MP61mN+fmbSSyL/meitQLxisG++ 3vD/IYhFwqYjRyknzC0M5M9GVXYNxJyGnG32UIFVVegTd5Ed7Co+y+IbWPqpgoS+ W1QDxiFRNs9KiHleoov95rF+jAC/aOT1J4zKjTKsbMCpVO54r5Ti0Gt2hg25ItN9 SgnHbK+6p675ZpEOmW38fj9XWnopmQ1vPZW0MqvKwyhAFK4+0sJX6AtewhRZW71r zN+RAp0DzN9YvWv68G4v2rVHlYpv/7AySYqcPsOBcadWCYsvpjSSGcsIcjGHQZyg DaRWbNL5WwLGyiNwdB4DUGTBXy50FzC3pEqq1YR7GqIfANNS9fuotIt+Eb2ivuuQ KJRJIEkMInDlfZwxttMxhOYRkHL7MJGwr/4blz0+1qwJ7G2N+oRB//owQXamTm/m dn7Q+byzo2sn8kqpBakcZNkgTzLk2BbKYF+dT6ye0+BMjaSdkg35xTTxZTxyq0IU Pt8+5Wv5Cskj08iJGaWQ =OhC9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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