[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU OpenBIOS booting?

Laurent Vivier Laurent at vivier.eu
Mon Apr 20 20:45:56 CEST 2009


Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 11:39 +0200, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
> >In message: <f43fc5580904191144y1fd8e4d6m3321855d0c558250 at mail.gmail.com>
> >            Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> writes:
> >: On 4/19/09, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> >: > In message: <f488382f0904190128l4383a56eu67a2f16eb338e61c at mail.gmail.com>
> >: >
> >: >             Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> writes:
> >: >  : I eventually decided it made more
> >: >  : sense to get QEMU working instead. I did notice that the pre-OpenBIOS
> >: >  : version of QEMU was able to boot Mac OS X via Open Hack'Ware, so I was
> >: >  : annoyed to find that OpenBIOS didn't have such support. So, I might as
> >: >  : well add it.
> >: >
> >: >
> >: > Open Hackware was barely enough to boot older versions of Linux.
> >: >  Other operating systems that needed more extensive properties from the
> >: >  OpenFirmware device tree failed to boot because they weren't present.
> >: >  I was involved in a large effort to get FreeBSD/powerpc booting on
> >: >  QEMU only to have it fail utterly because the amount of hacking on
> >: >  OpenHackWare needed was rather large and mysterious...
> >: 
> >: This is what I get with OpenBIOS:
> >: >> *** Boot failure! No secondary bootloader specified ***
> >: 
> >: 0 > boot cd:,\boot\loader cd:0
> >: Consoles: Open Firmware console
> >: 
> >: FreeBSD/Open Firmware/PowerPC bootstrap loader, Revision 0.1
> >: (root at xserve.lan.xcllnt.net, Thu Apr 16 18:47:58 UTC 2009)
> >: Memory: 131072KB
> >: Booted from: cd
> >: 
> >: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> >: /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x4a4ce0+0x3d4e4 syms=[0x4+0x454f0+0x4+0x5a4b9]
> >: /
> >: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> >: Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
> >: Kernel entry at 0x13dac0 ...
> >: panic: moea_bootstrap: no space to copy translations
> >: Uptime: 1s
> >
> >That's similar to the one that I've seen as well.  The problem with
> >this one, IIRC, is that FreeBSD/powerpc is trying to setup the memory
> >translations for the MMU and the 'translations' property length is
> >zero, or something like that...
> >
> 
> It seems there is the same problem with the Haiku bootloader, I have a patch to correct this.

Could you try the attached patch, please ?

Laurent
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