Re: [Qemu-ppc] Best BIOS for AIX troubleshooting / Going forward

[folkert]

Hi,

For that it is worth I'll post my notes here. Maybe they're usefull in
any way:

#! /bin/sh

# libfdt is required

# From: Alexander Graf
# There are 2 branches. One is my ppc-next queue, with patches that are soon to 
be applied to master:
#   git://repo.or.cz/qemu/agraf.git ppc-next
# and the other one is an experimental AIX dump ground:
#   git://repo.or.cz/qemu/agraf.git aix
# where I try to gather all the hacks people have been doing to get AIX that 
tiny bit further. It's nowhere close to actually working though.

# $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/qemu/agraf.git
#
# $ git checkout origin/ppc-next
# - or -
# $ git checkout origin/aix

echo open firmware:
echo setenv load-base 16384
echo boot cdrom:\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe  -s verbose

~folkert/qaix/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



On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:04:40PM +0000, Jacques Mony wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've started looking at AIX guest missing pieces in Qemu, and I have a 
> (newbie) feeling that portions of the improvements should probably go in the 
> BIOS rather than the emulation itself.
> 
> Is it better to use SLOF (which if I understand correctly is maintained by 
> IBM for Linux and teaching) or OpenBIOS (which seems to be somewhat a bit 
> more active and open) ?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jacques Mony
> 


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