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Date:      Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:08:05 -0700
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA4 fails to boot on POWER9/KVM
Message-ID:  <557519fc-a1f7-4a78-ee77-eae6f96d3a5e@freebsd.org>
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On 10/13/18 12:53 PM, Cameron Berkenpas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Finally had some time to spin up my own ISO from 12-CURRENT.
> Unfortunately, it still fails. Looks like there's no real change from
> before.
>
> # This is how I built the cdrom image:
> make cdrom TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64
> make cdrom TARGET=powerpc TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64
>
> I tried this with revision r339340.

[...]

>
> >> FreeBSD/powerpc Open Firmware boot block
>    Boot path:   /pci@800000020000000/scsi@7/disk@100000100000000
>    Boot loader: /boot/loader
>    Boot volume:   /pci@800000020000000/scsi@7/disk@100000100000000:2
> Consoles: Open Firmware console
>
> FreeBSD/powerpc64 Open Firmware loader, Revision 0.1
> (Sun Aug 19 13:30:54 PDT 2018 root@freebsd-ppc)


I think you aren't using the loader you think you are using judging by
the date above.
-Nathan

> Memory: 2097152KB
> Booted from: /pci@800000020000000/scsi@7/disk@100000100000000
>
>
> block-size NOT FOUND
> #blocks NOT FOUND|
> block-size NOT FOUND
> #blocks NOT FOUND\
> block-size NOT FOUND
> #blocks NOT FOUND
>
> ( 700 ) Program Exception [ 0 ]
>
>
>     R0 .. R7           R8 .. R15         R16 .. R23         R24 .. R31
> 0000000000000040   000000000345cdc4   ffffffffffffffff 0000000002c50468
> 0000000002c548c0   0000000000000000   0000000002c56ba0 0000000002c513a0
> 0000000000000000   0000000002c67780   0000000002c56b98 0000000002c51c18
> 000000000345d8f0   0000000002c67300   0000000002c62200 000000000345d8f0
> 0000000002c67340   0000000020000048   000000000040e78e 0000000000000000
> 0000000000000000   0000000000000000   0000000001802118 0000000000000000
> 0000000000000040   0000000002c4baec   0000000002c71980 0000000000000000
> 0000000000000040   000000007fffffff   0000000002c5bb84 000000000345d8f0
>
>     CR / XER           LR / CTR          SRR0 / SRR1        DAR / DSISR
>         80000044   0000000002c02938   0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> 0000000020040000   0000000000000000   0000000000083000 00000000
>
>
> e >
>
> Hope this is helpful!
>
> On 10/11/2018 12:00 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 10/11/2018 02:50 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>>> On 2018-Oct-11, at 11:19 AM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at
>>> blastwave.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>> "this"? I'm unsure if the following is addressing what you are
>>> referring to or not. But it might be.
>>>
>>> Until the problems with -r334498 's adjustment to VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS
>>> are dealt with, PowerMac G5's have boot problems (and possibly other
>>> problems), at least those with multiple sockets (for what I can test).
>>> (I've no access to other forms of PowerMac G5's.)
>>>
>>> See:
>>>
>>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2018-October/009669.html
>>>
>>>
>>> and later in that thread. (Earlier in the thread is likely a waste
>>> of time
>>> to read, given what is now known.)
>>>
>>> My G5 contexts are operational by reverting -r334498 . The contexts are
>>> otherwise based on -r339076 currently.
>>>
>>>
>>> Note:
>>>
>>> My boot test on a 8 GiByte, dual-socket, one "CPU" per socket,
>>> PowerMac G5 met the conditions of Andreas Tobler's requested test
>>> conditions and the machine boot fine (VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS near
>>> the RAM size, on the low side).
>>>
>>> The G5 so-called "Quad Core"s, 4 cores total in each system but
>>> split evenly across 2 sockets in each), one with 12 GiByte and
>>> one with 16 GiByte of RAM, booted fine as well. But
>>> VM_MAX_KERNEL_ADDRESS was somewhat under 8GiByte and so not near
>>> those sizes.
>>>
>>
>>
>> OKay ... that is a lot of good information and I'll sum up as "no".
>>
>> Was merely curious if I should give it a try.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
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