Re: [EXTERNAL][PATCH 0/7] via-ide: fixes and improvements

[BALATON Zoltan]

Hello,

On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, Aleksandar Markovic wrote:
> Hi, Mark, could you just enumerate those test images, download
> locations, etc. and whatever else is needed to reproduce the boot
> processes in question - it would be useful not only for this patch
> set, but for possible future work, wouldn't it?
>
> Sorry in advance if that info in possibly in another message, and
> was missed by me.

I've sent it to Mark off-list but here it is:

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> I was testing fulong2e with this kernel:
>
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/mips/livecd/loongson-2007.1/
>
> running it as
>
> qemu-system-mips64el -M fulong2e -serial stdio -net none -vga none \
> -trace enable="pci*" -kernel gentoo-loongson-2.6.22.6-20070902 \
> -cdrom debian-8.11.0-mipsel-netinst.iso
>
> adding the cdrom proabably does not really matter and I could not find 
> corresponding gentoo iso so using a debian one, it's just useful to have 
> something on the ide bus and also -cdrom adds it to second channel 
> because if you test with something on first channel only it might work 
> as that uses IRQ14 anyway.
>
> On pegasos2 I've used:
>
> qemu-system-ppc -M pegasos2 -net none -serial stdio \
> -vga none -device ati-vga,romfile=VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.bin \
> -cdrom morphos-3.13.iso
>
> then enter "boot cd boot.img" at the firmware ok prompt.
>
> And also the same pegasos2 command with
>
> -cdrom debian-8.11.0-powerpc-netinst.iso
>
> and enter "boot cd install/pegasos" then I usually select 3 for rescue 
> mode which can get to a command prompt.

For more info on VGABIOS-lgpl-latest.bin and pegrom.bin needed for 
pegasos2 see Pegasos2 emulation subproject on my http://qmiga.osdn.io/ 
page.

The fulong2e probably still has some problem correctly emulating pci 
devices becuase without -net none -vga none the kernel panics, I have no 
interest trying to debug and fix that, I only using fulong2e to 
cross-check changes needed for pegasos2. It could also be that the kernel 
being experimental have some problems, I can't test if it works on real 
hardware.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan