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* Is the ppc440 "bamboo" board in QEMU still of any use?
@ 2021-10-14  9:31 Thomas Huth
  2021-10-14 10:34 ` Christophe Leroy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Huth @ 2021-10-14  9:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Gibson, qemu-devel, qemu-ppc, Greg Kurz
  Cc: Christophe Leroy, Edgar E. Iglesias, Alexander Graf, hpoussin, clg


  Hi,

I tried to build a current Linux kernel for the "bamboo" board and use it in 
QEMU, but QEMU then quickly aborts with:

  pci.c:262: pci_bus_change_irq_level: Assertion `irq_num >= 0' failed.

(or with a "DCR write error" if I try to use the cuImage instead).

I googled a little bit and found this discussion:

https://qemu-devel.nongnu.narkive.com/vYHona3u/emulating-powerpc-440ep-with-qemu-system-ppcemb#post2

Seems like this board was used for KVM on the PPC440 only, and has never 
been enabled with the TCG emulation?

Well, KVM support on the 440 has been removed years ago already:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b2677b8dd8de0dc1496ede4da09b9dfd59f15cea

So is this "bamboo" board dead code in QEMU now? Or does anybody still have 
a kernel binary which could be used for testing it? Note: This board does 
not support "-bios", so u-boot or other firmwares are certainly also not an 
option here...
Should we mark "bamboo" as deprecated nowadays?

  Thomas



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2021-10-14  9:31 Is the ppc440 "bamboo" board in QEMU still of any use? Thomas Huth
2021-10-14 10:34 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-14 10:47   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-14 11:44     ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-10-14 12:57       ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-15  8:17       ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-14 11:29   ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-14 15:26     ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-14 15:35       ` Greg Kurz
2021-10-14 15:37       ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-14 15:58         ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-10-15  6:09           ` Thomas Huth
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