Merge of projects/pseries branch

[Joe Nosay]

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 at 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
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