Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware question

[Brian Wheeler]

After checking strings it looks like bootfile.exe is a bootloader that
pounds openfirmware rather extensively.

Hmm.  Is there a way to load a real ibm firmware into qemu?  Since I
have access to machines it might be an interesting experiment.

Brian

On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 09:30 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 22:49 +0200, J. Mayer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:32 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:
> > > All of the websites that are referred to in the docs and source are
> > > missing.  Is there another place to get it?  I'm tinkering with the idea
> > > to try to boot aix on qemu.
> > 
> > There was a broken link.
> > I just fixed it.
> > 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > But, for your information, AIX boot has been tested and does not boot.
> > The reason is it use a specific boot file format (with AIXM magic at
> > start) and I did not spent any time to discover where is stored the code
> > offset (but I know what the offset value is).
> > As reported in OHW README, I did test AIX 4.3.3 & 5.1.
> > 
> 
> Would booting the bootfile.exe from the CD directly via -kernel be a
> future option to work around the AIXM magic?  The exe looks to be a
> standard ELF file for powerpc.  It might be interesting to see what that
> file actually does (i.e. if its the kernel or a boot loader)
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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