On Thursday 19 March 2009 12:48:09 Blue Swirl wrote:
On 3/19/09, Rob Landley rob@landley.net wrote:
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 14:11:19 Blue Swirl wrote:
On 3/18/09, Rob Landley rob@landley.net wrote:
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 03:41:05 Alexander Graf wrote:
On 18.03.2009, at 00:57, Rob Landley wrote:
Up through svn 6657, I could boot a powerpc kernel with -kernel. That commit changed it so now it says: invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) fff18f00 1 invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) fff18f04 1 invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 0c - 06 (00009198) 00009214 0
And dies.
You can grab a test kernel from http://landley.net/zImage-powerpc and try booting it (out of the qemu source directory, this is assuming you've built it but haven't installed it yet) via:
ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -kernel zImage-powerpc \ -append "console=ttyS0 panic=1" -nographic -no-reboot -L pc-bios
With svn 6657, it works. (You get kernel boot messages up until it panics and dies because it can't find the root filesystem). With 6658 it dies immediately with the above error message.
Unfortunately, this means that the 0.10.0 release doesn't work for powerpc for me, but svn a couple days _before_ the release did.
That specific commit shouldn't have changed anything with respect to ppc32 emulation. The one where your command broken is the openBIOS update.
The commit I pointed to is the openbios update, yes.
Please try again without -nographic.
It does indeed work without nographic. (It doesn't do anything _useful_ for me without nographic, since I'm scripting the emulated kernel's behavior through stdin and stdout, but allowing it to pop up an SDL window does make it out of openbios and into the kernel.)
The kernel makes the equivalent of the following calls to OF interface: finddevice("/") = 0x11d5c finddevice("/chosen") = 0x1197c finddevice("/openprom") = 0x11b3c getprop(0x11b3c, "model", 0x78efeb0, 0x40) = 0xf getprop(0x11d5c, "stdout", 0x78efea0, 0x4) = 0x4 instance-to-path(0x86ea0, 0x12ad0dc, 0xff) where it crashes because memmove overwrites all memory.
But where does this 0x86ea0 come from?
No idea, but it worked with the previous openbios, and without --nographic. This is a 2.6.28.8 kernel built with the attached .config.
By the way, while binary searching the openbios repository to figure out exactly what commit between 450 and 463 actually caused it to stop working, and I hit a fun little OpenBios hiccup in the top level Makefile of current OpenBios svn:
build: @printf "Building..." @for dir in $(ODIRS); do \ $(MAKE) -C $$dir > $$dir/build.log 2>&1 && echo "ok." || \ ( echo "error:"; tail -15 $$$dir/build.log; exit 1 ) \ done
You have one too many $ before dir/build.log in the error message, so the error message you get is
Building...error: tail: cannot open `/build.log' for reading: No such file or directory make: *** [build] Error 1
I must always have used build-verbose. Should be fixed soon.
Which took about 15 minutes of head scratching for a newbie like me to track down. (The actual problem was that your config/examples/cross-ppc_rules.xml hardwires TARGET=powerpc-linux-gnu- and my cross compiler just uses powerpc- as the prefix, and overriding TARGET on the make command line doesn't work because you use recursive make, and you aren't doing the ?= conditional assignments that won't overwrite existing environment variable values. I more or less expected it and was running the thing the first time so it would tell me what cross compiler name it expected when it died unable to find it. Easy enough to fix by just editing the darn file, but a mention of it in the README wouldn't go amiss...)
But my tools also use different prefix, powerpc-elf- (powerpc-unknown-elf). I compile using:
make build-verbose TARGET=powerpc-elf-
without problems.
Eh, maybe I typoed something. But it would still be nice if the README could mention TARGET. (Or, for that matter, build-verbose.)
About the OpenBIOS problem, I've done further debugging. The crash can be reproduced with (-nographic -prom-env auto-boot?=false):
And we are beyond my area of expertise.
When I grab openbios-qemu.elf built from svn 479, rename it qemu-system-ppc, and then fire up qemu with "-L ." it complains it can't find "video.x". Ok, fine, add video.x to the current directory (that's powerpc code?) and try again, and it goes:
============================================================= OpenBIOS 1.0 [Mar 19 2009 02:56] Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2 CPUs: 1 Memory: 128M UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 CPU type PowerPC,750
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Mar 19 2009 02:56
File not found *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
Which is at least a _different_ error, but I have no idea what I did wrong...
I tried building a known working version, but svn is being stroppy:
$ svn update -r 450 svn: Target path does not exist
No _idea_ what that means, but apparently svn won't back up from current HEAD to target 450 without a fight, and won't explain why either. Google is not helpful here, it talks about merging branches...
Rob