From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 11:58:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-powerpc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE32463E for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s16892447.onlinehome-server.info (s16892447.onlinehome-server.info [82.165.15.123]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 697B72808 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:58:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from 5ec2da17.skybroadband.com ([94.194.218.23] helo=[192.168.1.81]) by s16892447.onlinehome-server.info with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1XAdml-00079y-5Z; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: <53D24103.3090603@ilande.co.uk> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:35:31 +0100 From: Mark Cave-Ayland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Nosay , Garrett Cooper References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.194.218.23 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on s16892447.onlinehome-server.info X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] Running FreeBSD-ppc/ppc64 on emulators? X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:45:44 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on s16892447.onlinehome-server.info) Cc: "freebsd-powerpc@freebsd.org" , "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:58:54 -0000 On 23/07/14 00:24, Joe Nosay wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Garrett Cooper > wrote: > > Hi all, > I tried getting FreeBSD-ppc/-ppc64 to run on qemu recently with > the 9/10/11 release media and I ran into boot issues (or probably user > error in booting up qemu with the images) -- the image would hang > right around mountroot. > I was wondering if anyone has a working recipe for how I would > start up qemu with powerpc, or if there was an alternative piece of > software available for emulating powerpc that could be used in general > purpose automation? > Thank you :)! > -Garrett > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > You need to send these types of queries to the qemu-ppc lists. On the > qemu-ppc list, please check the original email and forward the answers > to Mr Cooper. Hi Garrett, I'm not strictly a PPC developer, however I do spend a lot of time developing and testing OpenBIOS for SPARC and as part of this tend to test various PPC images to ensure that no regressions are introduced. As you noted FreeBSD-ppc gets fairly far these days; I can imagine that you're either seeing an issue with properties on PCI devices or possibly a bug in machine emulation. Can you share the command line you are using to launch QEMU? While I don't have the ability to look at this myself, I suspect anyone with a debug PPC kernel setup would be able to find the issue fairly easily. I tend to be around on the qemu-ppc list so if anyone is interested enough to participate, please start a thread there and I'll pick it up there. ATB, Mark.