[OpenBIOS] [RFT] ppc64 OpenBIOS

[Andreas Färber]

Am 18.12.2010 um 17:33 schrieb Blue Swirl:

> 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?

It still hangs after the "Trying" line, as reported in the "ppc64 boot  
issues" thread.
The exact cause is as of yet unknown.

>> 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.

Right. Should we hack switch-arch as an interim solution to make it  
work?

>> 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.

No objection from my side.

Andreas