openfirmware entrypoint on i386

      Hi,

I've been exploring OpenFirmware on x86, under qemu with coreboot.

I've been trying to run the hello.elf example.  I have trouble
loading it from an ext2 file system, I get an message:

ok report-disk
ok boot /pci/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/disk@0:\hello.elf
Boot device: /pci/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/disk@0:\hello.elf  Arguments: root=/dev/ram0
mount_ramdisk=1
Unimplemented package interface procedure
Undefined word encountered 
ok 

I also tried using using qemu's -option-rom function
to throw a raw binary into the address space that i
could then place in memory with 'cmove' and then
tried to 'branch' or 'execute' it.
This method probably isn't worth pursuing much,
even thought it did get me the furthest.

The problem there was that the pointer to the
openfirmware interface function wasn't getting
passed in %eax, but then again, I wasn't using 'boot'.

Anyway, tips on this would be appreciated.

	Jonathan Kollasch

Commit policy (Was: openfirmware entrypoint on i386)

[Torsten Duwe]

      On Monday 28 January 2008, jakllsch(a)kollasch.net wrote:

  I've been trying to run the hello.elf example.  I
have trouble
 loading it from an ext2 file system, I get an message:

 ok report-disk
 ok boot /pci/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/disk@0:\hello.elf
 Boot device: /pci/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/disk@0:\hello.elf 
 Unimplemented package interface procedure
  Anyway, tips on this would be appreciated.
I've had the same problem, and solved it (look for "... virtual mode" 
2007-10-08 in the archives). However, the commit procedure to OFW is somehow 
unclear, at least to me. Currently, only Mitch commits to the x86 part of 
OFW, and blueswirl hacks on sparc -- any others?

Mitch, do you insist on checking all patches to the x86 part yourself, or do 
you allow commits by others? One Ack or two? Or must we split/branch the 
repository for OFW as coreboot payload?

	Torsten

Commit policy (Was: openfirmware entrypoint on i386)

[Blue Swirl]

      On 1/28/08, Torsten Duwe <duwe(a)lst.de&gt; wrote:
  On Monday 28 January 2008, jakllsch(a)kollasch.net
wrote:

  I've been trying to run the hello.elf
example.  I have trouble
 loading it from an ext2 file system, I get an message:

 ok report-disk
 ok boot /pci/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/disk@0:\hello.elf
 Boot device: /pci/pci-ide@1,1/ide@0/disk@0:\hello.elf
 Unimplemented package interface procedure
  Anyway, tips on this would be appreciated.
 I've had the same problem, and solved it (look for "... virtual mode"
 2007-10-08 in the archives). However, the commit procedure to OFW is somehow
 unclear, at least to me. Currently, only Mitch commits to the x86 part of
 OFW, and blueswirl hacks on sparc -- any others?
More specifically I only hack OpenBIOS/Sparc, not OFW or coreboot.

  Mitch, do you insist on checking all patches to the
x86 part yourself, or do
 you allow commits by others? One Ack or two? Or must we split/branch the
 repository for OFW as coreboot payload?
If it's not too much trouble, I'd ask that at least the mailing list
should be split between OpenBIOS/OFW/coreboot.

Commit policy (Was: openfirmware entrypoint on i386)

[Tarl Neustaedter]

  If it's not too much trouble, I'd ask that at
least the mailing list
 should be split between OpenBIOS/OFW/coreboot.
Do we really have enough traffic to justify splitting into multiple
mailing lists?