On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:24:13 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)jdub.homelinux.org> wrote:
> I don't think there's any particular problem with
qemu-system-ppc
> per se; it's more the _firmware_ we use in it, which is a quick
> hack which was just about sufficient to get older kernels (and AIX
> etc.) working. These days, it isn't really sufficient. New kernels
> expect a sane and complete device-tree, etc.
>
> At some point in my Copious Spare Time™ I mean to try to fix it, or
> maybe even port the version of OpenFirmware that we're using on
> OLPC. Spare time hasn't exactly been copious recently though :)
In the meantime, David Gibson and Rob Landley have been working on
porting PReP to arch/powerpc. Rob is using qemu as his "platform", so
there may be some kernels that run on it as-is soon.
I though that even with a working firmware the kernel was pretty much
hosed to run in qemu. I could be wrong though, happy to be. If I
could do my ppc tree testing emulated like while working remotely I'd
be a very happy hacker.
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