Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 13:52:10 +0000 From: Jason Vas Dias <jason.vas.dias@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: HCL : 'powerpc : All New World ROM Apple(R) Mac(R) systems with built-in USB are supported. SMP is supported' ?? Message-ID: <CALyZvKwzP6pj8DjZYiObhJpD=W7crgVA2wkTYS93k8smmdGEQg@mail.gmail.com>
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Please can you tell me if the $SUBJECT statement from the page: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/\ handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.html should be prefixed by 'Only' ? ie. does the FreeBSD-11.2*powerpc64 image support IBM pseries? I am trying to get any PowerPC *BSD system running on the Qemu emulator of a 'pseries-3.0' machine with a power9 CPU - I tried your FreeBSD-11.2*-powerpc64* live CD iso, and the emulator loads IBM Open Firmware BIOS & loads CD image, but then just hangs - no messages appear from FreeBSD . I have built latest Qemu with PowerPC emulator on an IBM LinuxOne (s390x) machine, and am trying to run a PowerPC emulator with a variety of RTOS-es / alternative open-source OS-es under Qemu . The Qemu command I am using is: qemu-system-ppc64 -machine pseries -cpu power9 -smp 2 -realtime mlock=on \ -m 2G -cdrom /data/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-dvd1.iso \ -drive file=/data/freebsd.hd.img,format=raw \ -boot d -nographic -serial mon:stdio\ -prom-env 'boot-device=cd:1' -prom-env 'boot-args=-C -h -v -s' It says: ' SLOF ********************************************************************** QEMU Starting Build Date = Jun 21 2018 19:08:08 FW Version = git-7d37babcfa48a6eb Press "s" to enter Open Firmware. Populating /vdevice methods Populating /vdevice/vty@71000000 Populating /vdevice/nvram@71000001 Populating /vdevice/l-lan@71000002 Populating /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003 SCSI: Looking for devices 8000000000000000 DISK : "QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+" 8200000000000000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+" Populating /pci@800000020000000 00 0000 (D) : 1234 1111 qemu vga 00 0800 (D) : 1033 0194 serial bus [ usb-xhci ] Installing QEMU fb Scanning USB XHCI: Initializing USB Keyboard USB mouse No console specified using screen & keyboard Welcome to Open Firmware Copyright (c) 2004, 2017 IBM Corporation All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the BSD License available at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php Trying to load: from: /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003/disk@8200000000000000 ... Successfully loaded ' nothing happens, I wait (a long time) and press <CTRL><A> + 'x' to exit. ' QEMU: Terminated ' It doesn't look like it is able to boot at all. Is FreeBSD meant work without Apple firmware or on IBM Open Firmware ? I wanted to start off with FreeBSD , but am having no joy. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks & Regards, Jason
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