> -Original Message-
> From: Hollis Blanchard [mailto:holl...@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 4:08 AM
> To: Rahul Kulkarni
> Cc: Liu Yu-B13201; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org; Alexander Graf
> Subject: MMU tricks for NetBSD guests
>
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 11:56 -0700, Rahul Kulkarni
> -Original Message-
> From: Hollis Blanchard [mailto:holl...@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 12:00 AM
> To: Liu Yu-B13201
> Cc: Rahul Kulkarni; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: RE: PowerPC KVM build directions
>
> On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:52 +0800, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
> >
On 02.04.2009, at 22:08, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 11:56 -0700, Rahul Kulkarni wrote:
Rahul, one major quirk we exploit is that Linux does not use the
MSR[AS]
bit at all. One way that bit could be used is to give 32-bit
userspace
a
separate 4GB address space from the ke
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 11:56 -0700, Rahul Kulkarni wrote:
>
> Rahul, one major quirk we exploit is that Linux does not use the
> MSR[AS]
> bit at all. One way that bit could be used is to give 32-bit userspace
> a
> separate 4GB address space from the kernel. Instead, Linux puts both
> kernel and u
(I'll address the MMU issue in a separate mail.)
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 11:56 -0700, Rahul Kulkarni wrote:
> Another potential issue could be the initial environment (described
> earlier as option 2) not being what BSD expects. Do you use u-boot?
> You
> can see the initial environment set up in kv
Thanks Hollis for the pointer's..pls see inline..
-Original Message-
From: Hollis Blanchard [mailto:holl...@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 9:00 AM
To: Liu Yu-B13201
Cc: Rahul Kulkarni; kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: PowerPC KVM build directions
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 10:52 +0800, Liu Yu-B13201 wrote:
>
> > Since KVM supports a NetBSD 4.0 guest (I
> > think) and 8544/e500 emulation is already present in qemu --
> > theoretically the first part should work...but I recall Liu
> > mentioning that there might be some OS specific quirks
>
