From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 18 22:13:07 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DD23C9; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:13:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from superbisquit@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-x235.google.com (mail-ob0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D719D29B0; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f181.google.com with SMTP id gq1so8222732obb.40 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:13:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=YtxG0AajljTiU7/dTh/VInQYOipAkvtW1SHsSZ9Il4Y=; b=L7iNkbR5Wz264V+4OtKnmBjulGop6l850W+UrVK/kFtSsUEawj/2xNGrwpgyxP+u4A CvxB043PAu6pXwx/isiXcFM0xhMkITcOcW8BqElGsjgHW4772oeJ3BLYilgARee4Zsh+ j6eITxgCw3R0GTPRH75NuaDFEykI0+m84rC+iLEYU6Vl0OZa2Q2x5VY41wc9TTRZstht zw/l4LiNCYJBlfVunQRbrUFxaXVys0beCsdoZEeUvPRxR89CRaI5+evlbf9z9LFVSdxX eRCDJ+sjNaKYYB7UeWOLd+3u04gku+y5zOHHEn74k5dl+jYEDKUKJIt97vb7sLBjBgE+ dhcg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.81.41 with SMTP id w9mr11877191obx.18.1379542386098; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.182.78.100 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:13:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5239A855.4020405@freebsd.org> References: <5239A855.4020405@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:13:06 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Merge of projects/pseries branch From: Joe Nosay To: Nathan Whitehorn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD PowerPC ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 22:13:07 -0000 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 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 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@**freebsd.org > " >