[OpenBIOS] [PATCH][RFC] mac-io IDE support

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 18 janv. 09 à 00:37, Aurelien Jarno a écrit :

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 06:27:16PM +0100, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this patch adds the mac-io IDE support to openBIOS. It works well  
>> with
>> openBIOS (to load kernel) and with kernel 2.4 but has some problems  
>> with
>> linux 2.6.
>>
>> For instance, using debian-31r8-powerpc-netinst.iso with kernel 2.4
>> works well (but not kernel 2.6), but using debian-40r6-powerpc-
>> netinst.iso fails when debian-installer loads all udeb components.
>>
>> Is there a bug in qemu, linux or the mac-io IDE device tree is not
>> initialized correctly ?
>>
>
> I have tried your patch on already installed disk image, and it works
> without problem. I tried Debian etch (kernel 2.6.18), etchnhalf  
> (kernel
> 2.6.24) and lenny (kernel 2.6.26).

Thank you to have tested this.

>
>
> I haven't done any change on the qemu side. Given that the mac-io  
> ide is
> detected before the CMD646, I have to pass -hdc to the disk image so
> that it is recognized as -hda by Linux. I'll do test with the  
> different
> install CD tomorrow.


I use "-drive file=new_disk.qcow2,bus=1,unit=0 -drive file=debian-40r6- 
netinst.iso,bus=1,unit=1,media=cdrom"

and boot with "boot ide2:"

Try to install debian on the disk using these parameters. It fails  
every time for me when debian-installer loads its udeb.

Regards,
Laurent
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