[OpenBIOS] PReP PowerPC "emulation"
Andreas Färber
andreas.faerber at web.de
Tue Sep 14 23:02:38 CEST 2010
Am 14.09.2010 um 11:36 schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland:
> If you load qemu with -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false', you should be
> able to manually come up with a "boot <device>" line that will
> invoke the AIX bootloader - any chance you could find out what it is?
qemu-system-ppc64 w/ either stock QEMU OpenBIOS or r862 with OSX host
and ppc MMU patches:
C>> annot manage 'OHCI USB controller' PCI device type 'usb':
>> 106b 3f (c 3 10)
>> =============================================================
>> OpenBIOS 1.0 [Aug 17 2010 14:41]
>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 3
>> CPUs: 1
>> Memory: 128M
>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> CPU type PowerPC,970FX
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Aug 17 2010 14:41
0 > load cd:,\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe ok
0 > go No valid state has been set by load or init-program
ok
0 > boot cd:,\ppc\chrp\bootfile.exe No valid state has been set by
load or init-program
ok
0 > dir cd:,\ppc\chrp
2048 2007-07-03 17:39:44 .\
2048 2007-07-03 17:32:05 ..\
12487680 2007-07-03 17:39:24 bootfile.exe
ok
0 >
> Also, what format is the AIX bootloader - is it an ELF executable?
$ file /Volumes/CDROM/ppc/chrp/bootfile.exe
/Volumes/CDROM/ppc/chrp/bootfile.exe: ELF 32-bit MSB executable,
PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), statically linked, corrupted
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Andreas
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