From: Santosh S <santosh@fossix.org>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Help to test the powerpc architecture
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 14:43:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4793423.ZEnIhXLiWY@santosiv.in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200802142703.GA3575@ubuntu>
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On Sunday, 2 August, 2020 7:57:03 PM IST Oscar Carter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working in a new feature for the powerpc (64 bits little endian)
> architecture. Since I can't test it in a real environment, I need to
> emulate this arch. To do this I use qemu-ppc. My problem is that the
> built kernel don't boot in qemu.
>
> To build the kernel:
>
> make defconfig ARCH=powerpc
>
> Then I set to NO the CONFIG_KEXEC option as I found that qemu can't
> boot a KEXEC kernel. And now:
>
> make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- -j4
>
> Finally I obtain a zImage in arch/powerpc/boot/ directory.
>
> Before to run qemu I create a rootfs with debootstrap. Then I run qemu
> with the following parameters:
>
> qemu-system-ppc -kernel /media/ubuntu/Data/linux/arch/powerpc/boot/zImage \
> -append "root=/dev/sda console=ttyS0" \
> -drive file=qemu_image.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw \
> --nographic
>
> If I add the "-prom-env boot-args=-v" to the end of the last command I get
>
> the same result. The qemu always stops at this point:
> >> =============================================================
> >> OpenBIOS 1.1 [Dec 27 2018 23:11]
> >> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2
> >> CPUs: 1
> >> Memory: 128M
> >> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> >> CPU type PowerPC,750
>
> milliseconds isn't unique.
> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Dec 27 2018 23:11
>
> >> [ppc] Kernel already loaded (0x01000000 + 0x009085d8) (initrd 0x00000000
> >> + 0x00000000) [ppc] Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda console=ttyS0
>
> >> switching to new context:
> Also, I've tried to build the kernel with a DTB embedded in the image,
> but not luck. The same result again.
>
> make ps3_defconfig ARCH=powerpc
> make ARCH=powerpc simpleImage.ps3 CROSS_COMPILE=powerpc-linux-gnu- -j4
>
> I'm stuck at this point. I don't know how to configure the kernel to be
> able to boot with qemu. Any help to point me to the right direction
> will be greatly appreciated.
I used `pseries_defconfig` and have also used `pseries_le_defconfig` and
have done successful boots. You should probably give the machine type in
your qemu command line.
`-M pseries`
or whatever is the machine type is for ps3
Thanks,
Santosh
>
> Thank's in advance.
> Oscar Carter
>
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2020-08-02 14:27 Help to test the powerpc architecture Oscar Carter
2020-08-10 9:13 ` Santosh S [this message]
2020-08-11 7:28 ` jim.cromie
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