Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc64: set MSR_SF bit

[Thomas Huth]

On 16.03.2016 11:06, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16.03.16 11:05, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> On 16/03/2016 10:48, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16.03.16 10:43, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>>> When a qemu-system-ppc64 is started, the 64-bit mode bit
>>>> is not set in MSR.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> I guess commit 2cf3eb6df552cee74b52de9989e270b74e42847e broke this. I'm
>>> surprised it didn't cause us more problems :).
>>
>> Linux kernel is ready to manage that: see enable_64b_mode in
>> arch/powerpc/kernel/head_64.S
> 
> We don't boot Linux directly though, only openBIOS and SLOF :).

Both, SLOF and OpenBIOS, seem to enable the SF bit manually, too, see:

https://github.com/qemu/openbios/blob/master/arch/ppc/qemu/start.S#L524

https://github.com/aik/SLOF/blob/master/board-qemu/llfw/startup.S#L91

 Thomas