[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] qemuppc: replace emulation of qemuppc

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Bruce Ashfield
> <bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Richard Purdie
>> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 23:12 -0500, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>>> > On 01/05/2012 12:37 AM, Liming Wang wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hi Richard,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> These patches are aimed to replace emulation of qemuppc from prep to
>>>> >> mac99.
>>>> >> With this new emulation, qemuppc now supports framebuffer and the network
>>>> >> works well.
>>>> >>
>>>> > Is there anything that needs to be setup differently for the runqemu
>>>> > scripts?  Our sanity tests have failed after changing to the new ppc code
>>>> > and I wonder if there is something for the command line or ???
>>>>
>>>> What type of failure ? boot ? I'm building and booting it all the time, so I can
>>>> help there. Or are you talking about something in particular like the network ?
>>>> disk ?
>>>
>>> I ran a test build and can confirm that whilst qemuppc can boot, there
>>> is no network. We need to fix the network ASAP as our automated testing
>>> depends on working network access...
>>
>> Liming is out for the next week or so, but I'll see what I can do on Monday.
>> He did report a properly working networking with his initial submission, so it
>> should just be a configuration issue.
>
> Does anyone have more details on this for me ? I just did a build and boot into
> sato and everything worked here. Mouse was fine, opened the terminal, ifconfig
> reports and up and running ethernet, and I can ping and ssh out of qemppc to
> my host machine.
>
> So I've got nothing to test here, since it all worked.
>
> Note: there is one small change to runqemu that I can send along to enable the
> keyboard in sato, but that's all that I have to go on.

As was discussed on IRC, I was booting my 3.2 kernel .. where everything worked.
I've fixed this on 3.0 and sent a pull request.

Bruce

>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>
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