[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU OpenBIOS booting?

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 20 21:30:07 CEST 2009


On 4/20/09, Laurent Vivier <Laurent at vivier.eu> wrote:
> Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 11:39 +0200, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
>
> > >In message: <f43fc5580904191144y1fd8e4d6m3321855d0c558250 at mail.gmail.com>
>  > >            Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> writes:
>  > >: On 4/19/09, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>  > >: > In message: <f488382f0904190128l4383a56eu67a2f16eb338e61c at mail.gmail.com>
>  > >: >
>  > >: >             Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> writes:
>  > >: >  : I eventually decided it made more
>  > >: >  : sense to get QEMU working instead. I did notice that the pre-OpenBIOS
>  > >: >  : version of QEMU was able to boot Mac OS X via Open Hack'Ware, so I was
>  > >: >  : annoyed to find that OpenBIOS didn't have such support. So, I might as
>  > >: >  : well add it.
>  > >: >
>  > >: >
>  > >: > Open Hackware was barely enough to boot older versions of Linux.
>  > >: >  Other operating systems that needed more extensive properties from the
>  > >: >  OpenFirmware device tree failed to boot because they weren't present.
>  > >: >  I was involved in a large effort to get FreeBSD/powerpc booting on
>  > >: >  QEMU only to have it fail utterly because the amount of hacking on
>  > >: >  OpenHackWare needed was rather large and mysterious...
>  > >:
>  > >: This is what I get with OpenBIOS:
>  > >: >> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
>  > >:
>  > >: 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0
>  > >: Consoles: Open Firmware console
>  > >:
>  > >: FreeBSD/Open Firmware/PowerPC bootstrap loader, Revision 0.1
>  > >: (root at xserve.lan.xcllnt.net, Thu Apr 16 18:47:58 UTC 2009)
>  > >: Memory: 131072KB
>  > >: Booted from: cd
>  > >:
>  > >: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
>  > >: /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x4a4ce0+0x3d4e4 syms=[0x4+0x454f0+0x4+0x5a4b9]
>  > >: /
>  > >: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>  > >: Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
>  > >: Kernel entry at 0x13dac0 ...
>  > >: panic: moea_bootstrap: no space to copy translations
>  > >: Uptime: 1s
>  > >
>  > >That's similar to the one that I've seen as well.  The problem with
>  > >this one, IIRC, is that FreeBSD/powerpc is trying to setup the memory
>  > >translations for the MMU and the 'translations' property length is
>  > >zero, or something like that...
>  > >
>  >
>  > It seems there is the same problem with the Haiku bootloader, I have a patch to correct this.
>
>
> Could you try the attached patch, please ?

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