Merge of projects/pseries branch
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Wed Sep 18 13:19:26 UTC 2013
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
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