Running FreeBSD-ppc/ppc64 on emulators?

[Joe Nosay]

On Friday, July 25, 2014, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jul 25, 2014, at 4:35, Mark Cave-Ayland <
> mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> On 23/07/14 00:24, Joe Nosay wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, July 22, 2014, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','yaneurabeya at gmail.com <javascript:;>');>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>    Hi all,
> >>         I tried getting FreeBSD-ppc/-ppc64 to run on qemu recently with
> >>    the 9/10/11 release media and I ran into boot issues (or probably
> user
> >>    error in booting up qemu with the images) -- the image would hang
> >>    right around mountroot.
> >>         I was wondering if anyone has a working recipe for how I would
> >>    start up qemu with powerpc, or if there was an alternative piece of
> >>    software available for emulating powerpc that could be used in
> general
> >>    purpose automation?
> >>    Thank you :)!
> >>    -Garrett
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> >> You need to send these types of queries to the qemu-ppc lists. On the
> >> qemu-ppc list, please check the original email and forward the answers
> >> to Mr Cooper.
> >
> > Hi Garrett,
> >
> > I'm not strictly a PPC developer, however I do spend a lot of time
> developing and testing OpenBIOS for SPARC and as part of this tend to test
> various PPC images to ensure that no regressions are introduced.
> >
> > As you noted FreeBSD-ppc gets fairly far these days; I can imagine that
> you're either seeing an issue with properties on PCI devices or possibly a
> bug in machine emulation. Can you share the command line you are using to
> launch QEMU?
> >
> > While I don't have the ability to look at this myself, I suspect anyone
> with a debug PPC kernel setup would be able to find the issue fairly
> easily. I tend to be around on the qemu-ppc list so if anyone is interested
> enough to participate, please start a thread there and I'll pick it up
> there.
>
> Hi Mark,
>     Nathan Whitehorn from FreeBSD replied to me earlier on this week and
> provided some hints for getting qemu working with ppc64. I'll try booting
> FreeBSD again this weekend with qemu to see whether or not his hints work.
> If I run into any issues I'll be sure to email the list :).
> Thanks!
> -Garrett

Thanks,  for helping out Mr Cooper.