From owner-freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Thu Oct 11 18:20:03 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB9210C2FF9 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:20:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com (atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com [209.17.115.118]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E626A7B622 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:20:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from atl4mhob04.registeredsite.com (atl4mhob04.registeredsite.com [209.17.115.42]) by atl4mhfb02.myregisteredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w9BIJfHo030105 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:19:41 -0400 Received: from mailpod.hostingplatform.com (atl4qobmail02pod2.registeredsite.com [10.30.77.36]) by atl4mhob04.registeredsite.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id w9BIJYKU010760 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:19:34 -0400 Received: (qmail 34736 invoked by uid 0); 11 Oct 2018 18:19:34 -0000 X-TCPREMOTEIP: 174.118.245.214 X-Authenticated-UID: dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.16.35.3?) (dclarke@blastwave.org@174.118.245.214) by 0 with ESMTPA; 11 Oct 2018 18:19:34 -0000 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 fails to boot on POWER9/KVM To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org References: <5d84652d-8b54-19f9-1396-e7c9acbe6c03@neo-zeon.de> <5f44c6d6-7eec-6732-6fef-123e7e0d3292@freebsd.org> <2b4455f4-37f6-5645-dcba-2cc41c845ae8@neo-zeon.de> <0a970b75-160a-e40e-b360-1b73a753f701@freebsd.org> From: Dennis Clarke Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:19:33 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0a970b75-160a-e40e-b360-1b73a753f701@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 18:20:03 -0000 On 10/10/2018 11:59 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > The first part of this (all the errors about "NOT FOUND") I just fixed > and the fixes will be included in BETA1 and subsequent builds. The > remaining issue is that virtio SCSI is not part of the standard kernel > on PPC (there are some endian and DMA bugs), so you will need to use an > alternative storage backend. The default storage backend (VSCSI) is > fine, as are more PC-ish things like AHCI emulation. > > This command line will work and is otherwise equivalent to the below: > qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -m 2048 -nographic -vga none -cdrom > FreeBSD-12.0-ALPHA9-powerpc-powerpc64-20181009-r339271-disc1.iso > /var/lib/libvirt/images/freebsd-ppc.qcow2 -mem-prealloc -mem-path > /dev/hugepages -smp 2 > > -Nathan Has anyone tried this on a PowerMac G5 yet ? Dennis