[OpenBIOS] Getting Closer With Booting AIX? I Would Like to Help Please.

Andreas Färber andreas.faerber at web.de
Sun May 1 19:36:10 CEST 2011


Am 26.04.2011 um 10:52 schrieb Artyom Tarasenko:

>> As stated earlier elsewhere, SVN HEAD does
>> not yet work for AIX; patches are needed for RTAS (and QEMU).
>
> BTW, is probably an off topic on this list, but do you know whether
> Slimline Open Firmware (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/pa-slof/ 
> )
> under qemu would be an easier way for booting AIX?

Since we don't have a real IBM machine emulation yet, I haven't played  
with any real firmware for POWER.

I had inquired whether the recent pSeries patch series would help with  
AIX emulation but understood it was only used to boot a Linux kernel  
directly using a special SLOF.

Andreas



More information about the OpenBIOS mailing list