[Qemu-ppc] AIX 6.1 on Qemu - attempt for GIT of 2012/11/27 host bridges

[folkert]

For fun and kicks I tried booting AIX 7.1 on Qemu (the one from GIT):


-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                Welcome to AIX.
                       boot image timestamp: 21:23 09/01
         processor count: 0;  memory size: 0MB;  kernel size: 35064581
      boot device: 
/vdevice/address@hidden/address@hidden,0:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe



get-property for available on zero phandle


00000000 bytes of free memory remain at address 00000000



get-property for cpu-version on zero phandle




get-property for 64-bit on zero phandle




get-property for name on zero phandle




           ERROR: This system is not supported for use with AIX 6.1.
          model: IBM pSeries (emulated by qemu)        processor: ��


                AIX 6 requires the POWER4 (or later) processor.


W3411: Client application returned.

E3406: Client application returned an error.

        ..`. ..     .......  ..           ......      .......
    ..`...`''.`'. .''``````..''.       .`''```''`.  `''``````
       .`` .:' ': `''.....  .''.       ''`     .''..''.......
         ``.':.';. ``````''`.''.      .''.      ''``''`````'`
         ``.':':`   .....`''.`'`...... `'`.....`''.`'`       
        .`.`'``   .'`'`````.  ``''''''  ``''`'''`. `'`       
  Type 'boot'  and press return  to  continue  booting  the system.
  Type 'reset-all'  and  press  return  to   reboot   the   system.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So it is getting further! Because before  it would hang add a get-property if I 
remember correctly.

If someone else wants to give it a try, I use the following commandline:

/usr/local/qemu/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -machine type=pseries -cpu POWER7_v2.3 
-smp 2 -m 4096 -mem-path /home/folkert/qip.bin -net tap -rtc base=localtime 
-cdrom 
/home/folkert/ISOs/AIX_7.1_Base_Operating_System_TL_7100-00-01_DVD_1_of_2_102010.iso
 -boot d -nographic

I'm a bit surprised that it says that it is aix 6.


Folkert van Heusden

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