Re: [OpenBIOS] PReP PowerPC "emulation"

[Massimo Montecchi]

So why the QEMU documentation states in this way ?

Use the executable ‘qemu-system-ppc’ to simulate a complete PREP or PowerMac
PowerPC system.

QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:

- - UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
   - - PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
   - - 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
   - - NE2000 PCI adapters
   - - Non Volatile RAM
   - - VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.

QEMU emulates the following PREP peripherals:

- - PCI Bridge
   - - PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
   - - 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
   - - Floppy disk
   - - NE2000 network adapters
   - - Serial port
   - - PREP Non Volatile RAM
   - - PC compatible keyboard and mouse.

QEMU uses the Open Hack’Ware Open Firmware Compatible BIOS available at
http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/index.htm.

Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS http://www.openbios.org/ for the
g3beige and mac99 PowerMac machines. OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable
firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994
(referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.

The following options are specific to the PowerPC emulation:
‘-g WxH[xDEPTH]’

Set the initial VGA graphic mode. The default is 800x600x15.
‘-prom-env string’

Set OpenBIOS variables in NVRAM, for example:

qemu-system-ppc -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' \
 -prom-env 'boot-device=hd:2,\yaboot' \
 -prom-env 'boot-args=conf=hd:2,\yaboot.conf'

These variables are not used by Open Hack’Ware.

More information is available at http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/qemu-ppc/.

Thanks, sorry and ciao

2010/9/16 Laurent Vivier
> > OK, maybe I make a mistake. It's not a problem.
> > My goals is to run AIX 4.3, 5.1 and 6.1 on QEMU!!!!!.
> > Can you help me? What you suggest?
> > I think there is a lot of confusion ( I also make confusion).
> > How I can run QEMU to "emulate" CHRP platform ?
>
> By default, qemu-system-ppc emulates a CHRP.
>
> To run AIX 4.3 and 5.1 you can use a 32bit machine (qemu-system-ppc), to
> run AIX 6.1 you need a 64bit machine (qemu-system-ppc64).
>
> But to be able to run AIX, there are some improvements to add:
> to OpenBIOS: at least RTAS is missing.
> to qemu: emulate hardware supported by AIX (disk controller, network
>
> interface, graphic card, ...)
>
> As said before: patches are welcome...
>
> Regards,
> Laurent
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