Right. If we're doing this to say "I can boot a kernel with a 7450 cpu in QEMU"
but
the implementation is different from real hardware, then I'm not sure what the
real
value is. That effectively leaves option b) if someone is willing to do the
work, or
as you say to simply remove the code from QEMU.
Yeah, that is a good point. Although the software TLB is well contained,
so we could certainly document that our 7450s don't have that feature
and call it a day. Does QEMU have any policy on how much of a machine is
required to be implemented?
I am more inclined to apply c) for now as I said, just to have some code
running on the CPU and maybe document in a gitlab issue that we're
lacking the runtime switch and eventually implement that. It's not like
this is high traffic code anyway. It has been broken for 10+ years.
That said, if Cédric and Daniel see more value in moving the 7450s to
the POWERPC_MMU_32B I won't oppose.
I am in favor of dropping unused code in QEMU and keeping the CPUs for
which we have support in Linux using the POWERPC_MMU_32B in QEMU and the
openbios patch. If we need SoftTLB support for the 74x CPUs in QEMU, we
can always dig in the history.
We can give FreeBSB a try also since they had support for the G4 :
https://people.freebsd.org/~arved/stuff/minimac
With the openbios patch, Linux boots fine under 7450, 7455, 7447 CPUs.
Under 7448, it drops in xmon with a :
kernel tried to execute exec-protected page (c07fdd98) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Unable to handle kernel instruction fetch
Faulting instruction address: 0xc07fdd98
Vector: 400 (Instruction Access) at [f1019d30]
pc: c07fdd98: __do_softirq+0x0/0x2f0
lr: c00516a4: irq_exit+0xbc/0xf8
sp: f1019df0
msr: 10001032
current = 0xc0d00000
pid = 1, comm = swapper
This should be fixable.
Thanks,
C.
