Jerone Young wrote: > The issue here is that qemu does not support u-boot firmware. What we > are doing is actually loading a u-boot image and booting Linux directly > with a pre made device tree (which is something normally u-boot firmware > would provide Linux). So this code wouldn't fit into plain qemu just > yet. >
In theory, it would still work with QEMU though right? It just requires a custom guest kernel. Regards, Anthony Liguori > On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 21:46 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Jerone Young wrote: >> >>> This set of patches is to enable PowerPC embedded KVM capablities to be >>> taken advantage of by qemu. >>> >>> The code currently boots a ungziped uImage of the Linux kernel complied for >>> PowerPC 440 AMCC Bamboo evalution board. We have not fully tested >>> userspace, but fixes will follow as we do. We are also missing networking >>> support, though this will come shortly. Also our current bamboo board model >>> is h >>> ardcoded to have 144MB or RAM (which will get changed shortly also). >>> >>> What you need: >>> - A PowerPC 440 based SOC (System-on-Chip) >>> (we have been testing with a AMCC bamboo & AMCC sequoia boards) >>> - PowerPC KVM Patches (these have been sent by Hollis Blanchard to >>> the list) >>> - KVM Kernel source with PowerPC KVM Patches applied >>> - cross tools with powerpc 440 compiler (this is assuming your not >>> using a power machine) >>> - version of zlib-1.2.3 or higher compiled for powerpc >>> >>> Then you compile with userspace. Here is an example of what I use to >>> configure kvm-userspace: >>> >>> ./configure --arch=powerpc --cross-prefix=powerpc-440-linux-gnu- >>> --with-patched-kernel --kerneldir=/home/jerone/work/kvmppc.hg/ >>> --disable-sdl --disable-vnc-tls --disable-gfx-check --disable-gcc-check >>> --qemu-cflags="-I/home/jerone/work/zlib-1.2.3 >>> -I/home/jerone/work/kvmppc.hg/include/" >>> --qemu-ldflags="-L/home/jerone/work/zlib-1.2.3/" >>> >>> Then you run "make". After which you will have an excutable: >>> kvm-userspace/qemu/ppcemb-softmmu/qemu-system-ppcemb >>> >>> To run, boot your compiled KVM PPC enabled kernel and also compile your >>> special none gzipped cuImag >>> e of Linux for the Bamboo board. Then run: >>> >>> ./qemu-system-ppcemb -nographic -M bamboo -kernel cuImage.bambo >>> >>> >> Since you're just adding a new machine type to the existing ppcemb, it >> may be worth while to split out the KVM logic and submit the machine >> type directly to qemu-devel. >> >> Does the code work with -no-kvm? >> >> Regards, >> >> Anthony Liguori >> >> >>> Signed-off-by: Jerone Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >>> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. >>> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> kvm-devel mailing list >>> kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel >>> >>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
