Re: OpenMPIC controller emulation in qemu ?

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Fri, 17 May 2024, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> yeah .... I tried to boot kernel directly (mounted iso at some test dir)
>
> /dev/shm/qemu-9.0.0/build/qemu-system-ppc -M mac99 -smp 2 -nographic -cdrom
> ~/finnix-ppc-110.iso -boot d -bios /dev/shm/openbios-qemu.elf -d unimp
> -kernel /mnt/test/boot/ppc/linux
>
> and it hanged at
[...]
> [    0.000000] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> [    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
> [    0.000000] bootconsole [udbg0] disabled

Maybe it did not hang but tried to output to screen which you have 
disabled with -nographic. Try adding -append "console=ttyPZ0" to see 
further logs on serial. (Then also add -initrd with the root filesystem, 
you can check in yaboot.conf.)

> ==================
>
> may be it not really hanged, but I'll left it overnight at next night :}
>
> sparc in the meantime boots ok:

Great but that has nothing to do with mac99.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan