Re: [Qemu-devel] svn 6658 broke powerpc.

[Alexander Graf]

On 18.03.2009, at 00:57, Rob Landley wrote:

> Up through svn 6657, I could boot a powerpc kernel with -kernel.   
> That commit
> changed it so now it says:
> invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) fff18f00 1
> invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 00 - 00 (00000000) fff18f04 1
> invalid/unsupported opcode: 00 - 0c - 06 (00009198) 00009214 0
>
> And dies.
>
> You can grab a test kernel from http://landley.net/zImage-powerpc  
> and try
> booting it (out of the qemu source directory, this is assuming  
> you've built it
> but haven't installed it yet) via:
>
> ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -kernel zImage-powerpc \
>  -append "console=ttyS0 panic=1" -nographic -no-reboot -L pc-bios
>
> With svn 6657, it works.  (You get kernel boot messages up until it  
> panics and
> dies because it can't find the root filesystem).  With 6658 it dies
> immediately with the above error message.
>
> Unfortunately, this means that the 0.10.0 release doesn't work for  
> powerpc for
> me, but svn a couple days _before_ the release did.

That specific commit shouldn't have changed anything with respect to  
ppc32 emulation. The one where your command broken is the openBIOS  
update.


Please try again without -nographic.

Alex