Re: QEMU and E500

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Fri Aug 4, 2023 at 2:06 AM AEST, Andrea Palmatè wrote:
> Of course I did..
> There are no great examples that use that machine.. That link is one of the
> few I've found online. And no one of them are using an ISO to boot via CD

How is it not booting? Can you take the kernel from the ISO and boot it
directly with -kernel? Linux needs CONFIG_PPC_QEMU_E500=y which might
not be set.

Thanks,
Nick

>
>
> Il giorno gio 3 ago 2023 alle ore 17:10 BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
> ha scritto:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Aug 2023, Andrea Palmatè wrote:
> > > I'm trying in all ways to emulate a machine with e500 using an x86 host.
> > > I've tried several distro (SPE too) but no luck. The machine will not
> > boot
> > > using an ISO. I've tried both ppce500 and mpc8544ds. I need to emulate
> > the
> > > cpu e500v2 because I need to do some tests with linux.
> > > If I add the ISO and also the HD they are seen in virtio info but there
> > is
> > > no way to boot from them.
> >
> > Have you tried what's documented here?
> > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/ppc/ppce500.html
> >
> > Regards,
> > BALATON Zoltan