[OpenBIOS] [RFT] ppc64 OpenBIOS

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 17:33:03 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber at web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Except for some fs/iso9660/ issues, ppc64 guests are booting for me with the
> last five OpenBIOS patches posted.

What are the issues?

>
> You can find them together with the config change to use fs/grubfs/ here:
>
>  git://repo.or.cz/openbios/afaerber.git ppc64-boot
>
> Please test your favorite ppc64 kernels and images with
> obj-ppc64/openbios-qemu.elf!

Passes my simple tests. The only problem is that building forthstrap
on a 64 bit host fails.

> If I don't hear of regressions, I'll commit those patches. Once that is done
> and the iso9660 issues hopefully fixed, I would ask for Blue to commit
> openbios-ppc and openbios-ppc64 blobs to QEMU. I'll then prepare a QEMU
> patch to switch the default qemu-system-ppc64 ppc_newworld.c BIOS from
> openbios-ppc to openbios-ppc64.

I think openbios-ppc should be renamed to openbios-ppc32 for
consistency with Sparc naming.



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