Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:13:06 -0400 From: Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com> To: Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Merge of projects/pseries branch Message-ID: <CA%2BWntOutgA1A5r80Vf8c2AbrBJGWcJt0Y2AbNW14VannrOWKXw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5239A855.4020405@freebsd.org> References: <5239A855.4020405@freebsd.org>
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What's the status of virtualization on Power(64) for FreeBSD? Did you test this out on your PS3? No hardware yet, but am hoping soon. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>wrote: > Yesterday, I merged projects/pseries into HEAD (r255643). To quote the > commit message: > > Log: > Merge in support for PAPR-compliant (Power Architecture Platform > Requirements) systems from the projects/pseries branch. This in principle > includes all IBM POWER hardware released in the last 15 years with the > exception of POWER3-based systems when run in 64-bit mode. The main > development target, however, has been the PAPR logical partition support > that is the default target in KVM on POWER and QEMU -- mileage may vary > on actual hardware at present. Much of the heavy lifting here was done > by Andreas Tobler. > > If you want to run this in QEMU (emulators/qemu-devel from ports works), > do something like this: > > cd /usr/src > make buildworld buildkernel TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64 > cd /usr/src/release > make release TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64 > make install DESTDIR=~/pseries > (the above will be the steps re@ takes in the next ALPHA/BETA release > (probably) after ALPHA2) > > qemu-system-ppc64 -m 512 -cdrom ~/pseries/release.iso -monitor stdio > -drive id=root,if=none,file=~/**pseries/release.iso -device > usb-storage,drive=root -vga none -usb -net nic,model=e1000,vlan=0 -net > user,vlan=0 > > and switch to the serial port display. You may or may not need to enter > this at the mountroot prompt: > cd9660:/dev/da0 ro > > As you can tell from the length of the QEMU command, we are still missing > a few drivers to run out of the box: > - PAPR LPAR virtualized SCSI > - PAPR LPAR virtualized Ethernet > - QEMU framebuffer > > It is also possible that the CD image you make above will work on actual > IBM hardware. If you happen to have any compatible hardware, test results > would be very interesting! > -Nathan > ______________________________**_________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc>; > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@**freebsd.org<freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org> > " >
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