On 4/10/09, Andreas Färber andreas.faerber@web.de wrote:
Hello,
As mentioned on qemu-devel, sparc32 softmmu is no longer booting on OSX/ppc
I must have missed that message. I guess you mean this one: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/40767
host. This applies to both harddisk and DVD images, all Debian Etch. It hangs after "Booting file ... with parameters '' Trying ..." (before "Not a bootable ELF image").
These are the results of my bisection:
r482 (QEMU r6962) nope r479 (QEMU r6777) nope 1.0 (QEMU r6658 + 9794f74f9c1dd0fbef30ded9e5c14c28a6fa579b) nope ??? (QEMU r6563 + 9794f74f9c1dd0fbef30ded9e5c14c28a6fa579b) nope ??? (QEMU r6273 + e58ffeb322e2ef88cc23e9505366418bf793316d w/ --disable-aio) works r237 (QEMU r5262) works
Has anyone recently been successful booting on ppc, could this be some endianness issue? It works fine on OpenSolaris/amd64 host.
It also works on OpenBSD/Sparc64 host, which is big endian. Linux/i386 works too, so 32 bit case is covered.
I doubt that this can be a problem in OpenBIOS, I find QEMU more likely suspect. Can you boot any other big endian targets on PPC, for example PPC?