Re: [Qemu-ppc] PowerPC, enable-kvm, and the Power processor

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 20/06/18 19:04, Thomas Huth wrote:

> > Thanks for the info. I was referring to testing a 32-bit version of the PowerPC 
> > processor like the PowerPC 750 (G3) with qemu-system-ppc.
>
> I just gave it a very quick try. It still seems to work:
>
> $ ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -enable-kvm -cpu G3 -nographic
>
> > > =============================================================
> > > OpenBIOS 1.1 [Oct 19 2017 07:00]
> > > Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
> > > CPUs: 1
> > > Memory: 128M
> > > UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> > > CPU type PowerPC,750

Good news! Although that's a really old build of 
qemu-system-ppc/OpenBIOS that you have just tested there:

$ ./ppc-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc -nographic

>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.1 [Jun 18 2018 18:20]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,750
milliseconds isn't unique.
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Jun 18 2018 18:20
Trying hd:,\\:tbxi...
Trying hd:,\ppc\bootinfo.txt...
Trying hd:,%BOOT...
No valid state has been set by load or init-program


ATB,

Mark.