Please can you tell me if the $SUBJECT statement
from the page:
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/\
handbook/bsdinstall-hardware.html
should be prefixed by 'Only' ?
ie. does the FreeBSD-11.2*powerpc64 image support IBM pseries?
I am trying to get any PowerPC *BSD system running on
the Qemu emulator of a 'pseries-3.0' machine with a
power9 CPU - I tried your FreeBSD-11.2*-powerpc64*
live CD iso, and the emulator loads IBM Open Firmware
BIOS & loads CD image, but then just hangs - no messages
appear from FreeBSD . I have built latest Qemu with PowerPC
emulator on an IBM LinuxOne (s390x) machine, and am trying
to run a PowerPC emulator with a variety of RTOS-es /
alternative open-source OS-es under Qemu .
The Qemu command I am using is:
qemu-system-ppc64 -machine pseries -cpu power9 -smp 2 -realtime mlock=on \
-m 2G -cdrom /data/FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-powerpc-powerpc64-dvd1.iso \
-drive file=/data/freebsd.hd.img,format=raw \
-boot d -nographic -serial mon:stdio\
-prom-env 'boot-device=cd:1' -prom-env 'boot-args=-C -h -v -s'
It says:
'
SLOF **********************************************************************
QEMU Starting
Build Date = Jun 21 2018 19:08:08
FW Version = git-7d37babcfa48a6eb
Press "s" to enter Open Firmware.
Populating /vdevice methods
Populating /vdevice/vty@71000000
Populating /vdevice/nvram@71000001
Populating /vdevice/l-lan@71000002
Populating /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003
SCSI: Looking for devices
8000000000000000 DISK : "QEMU QEMU HARDDISK 2.5+"
8200000000000000 CD-ROM : "QEMU QEMU CD-ROM 2.5+"
Populating /pci@800000020000000
00 0000 (D) : 1234 1111 qemu vga
00 0800 (D) : 1033 0194 serial bus [ usb-xhci ]
Installing QEMU fb
Scanning USB
XHCI: Initializing
USB Keyboard
USB mouse
No console specified using screen & keyboard
Welcome to Open Firmware
Copyright (c) 2004, 2017 IBM Corporation All rights reserved.
This program and the accompanying materials are made available
under the terms of the BSD License available at
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php
Trying to load: from: /vdevice/v-scsi@71000003/disk@8200000000000000
... Successfully loaded
'
nothing happens, I wait (a long time) and press <CTRL><A> + 'x' to exit.
'
QEMU: Terminated
'
It doesn't look like it is able to boot at all.
Is FreeBSD meant work without Apple firmware or on IBM Open Firmware ?
I wanted to start off with FreeBSD , but am having no joy.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Jason
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