[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] PPC: Add "real" CPU timebase-frequency override NVRAM variable
Alexander Graf
agraf at csgraf.de
Sat Jun 29 16:56:49 CEST 2013
On 29.06.2013, at 15:14, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 29/06/13 14:04, Alexander Graf wrote:
>
>> Am 29.06.2013 um 13:27 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland<mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>:
>>
>>> Some older OS (particularly Darwin) will get stuck in a timing loop upon
>>> boot if the CPU clock-frequency and timebase-frequency aren't set close
>>> enough to "real" values.
>>>
>>> The clock-frequency property is already fairly realistic, so create a new
>>> boolean NVRAM variable "force-real-tbfreq?" which when set to true will
>>> override the timebase-frequency value supplied by QEMU/KVM with that similar
>>> to a real Mac.
>>>
>>> Hence it is possible to boot these old OS from QEMU by adding the following
>>> to the QEMU command line: -prom-env 'force-real-tbfreq?=true' (although of
>>> course the guest timing may be inaccurate).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland<mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>
>>> CC: Alexander Graf<agraf at csgraf.de>
>>
>> I think I'd prefer a QEMU option to modify the timebase for real. That would change the emulated frequency as well as the one it exposes to OpenBIOS.
>
> Hmmm okay - that's something that's reasonably beyond my level of QEMU knowledge to do at the moment :/ Although I have seen that some patches for throttling QEMU in the past have been rejected...
The throttling is already in place :). Check out cpu_ppc_tb_init() in hw/ppc/ppc.c. Actually it almost looks like the only thing we're doing wrong is the exported tbfreq value...
hw/ppc/mac_oldworld.c: cpu_ppc_tb_init(env, 16600000UL);
hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c: cpu_ppc_tb_init(env, 100UL * 1000UL * 1000UL);
Alex
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