Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-18 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 12 April 2007 11:49 am, Jason Wessel wrote: > J. Mayer wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:49 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > > >> qemu-system-ppc -M prep -nographic -kernel zImage-powerpc -append \ > >> "console=/dev/ttyS0" ... > While I am sure folks have the objective to be able

Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-14 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 12 April 2007 11:49 am, Jason Wessel wrote: > J. Mayer wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:49 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > > >> qemu-system-ppc -M prep -nographic -kernel zImage-powerpc -append \ > >> "console=/dev/ttyS0" > >> > > > > You cannot append anything to the comman

Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-14 Thread Rob Landley
I'm fighting with cvs and haven't been able to update my build directory yet. (I've been spoiled by mercurial, where doing an update on a directory with modifications in it doesn't _eat_ the directory. And my attempt to create a mercurial copy of the cvs history with tailor so I could tracck d

Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Wessel
J. Mayer wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:49 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote: A kernel > 4 MB ? Even on my amd64 I usually have kernels smaller than this. Is there any need to have such a big kernel for anyone ? Maybe no one else has the need but me... I built a kernel with nearly all built i

Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-12 Thread J. Mayer
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 10:49 -0500, Jason Wessel wrote: > J. Mayer wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:49 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > > >> qemu-system-ppc -M prep -nographic -kernel zImage-powerpc -append \ > >> "console=/dev/ttyS0" > >> > > > > You cannot append anything to the command

Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Wessel
Jason Wessel wrote: There is a new regression between Apr 9 and Apr 10 in the QEMU CVS HEAD where tcp checksums are failing again. :-( I stand corrected it not the TCP check sums. The new PPC pic code does not work so as to allow the ethernet device driver to receive packets. I guess t

Re: Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-12 Thread Jason Wessel
J. Mayer wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:49 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: qemu-system-ppc -M prep -nographic -kernel zImage-powerpc -append \ "console=/dev/ttyS0" You cannot append anything to the command line this way, with the PPC firmware... You can append options when using yaboot, n

Re:Qemu-PPC problems (was [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point)

2007-04-12 Thread J. Mayer
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:49 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Monday 09 April 2007 6:32 pm, J. Mayer wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 17:26 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Sunday 08 April 2007 7:19 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > AFAIK PPC emulation hasn't *ever* worked well enough t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-11 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 09 April 2007 6:32 pm, J. Mayer wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 17:26 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Sunday 08 April 2007 7:19 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > [...] > > > > AFAIK PPC emulation hasn't *ever* worked well enough to boot without at > > least > > > building a custom linux kernel.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-09 Thread J. Mayer
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 17:26 -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2007 7:19 pm, Paul Brook wrote: [...] > > AFAIK PPC emulation hasn't *ever* worked well enough to boot without at > least > > building a custom linux kernel. In addition the -kernel commandline option > > have no effect

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-09 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 08 April 2007 7:19 pm, Paul Brook wrote: > > Mr Paul Brook did break the PREP and heathrow machines while doing > > changes in the PCI code. There were some posts on this list reporting > > this and he never even tried to fix what he broke. And now he's > > complaining "I cannot test as i

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-09 Thread J. Mayer
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 00:19 +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > Mr Paul Brook did break the PREP and heathrow machines while doing > > changes in the PCI code. There were some posts on this list reporting > > this and he never even tried to fix what he broke. And now he's > > complaining "I cannot test as

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-08 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Paul Brook wrote: > I stand by my original statement. > A machine that requires building a custom kernel, maybe hacking a > bootloader, and creating a bootable filesystem from scratch is untestable. seems reasonable to me -mike pgpDRIrvITBvj.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-08 Thread Paul Brook
> Mr Paul Brook did break the PREP and heathrow machines while doing > changes in the PCI code. There were some posts on this list reporting > this and he never even tried to fix what he broke. And now he's > complaining "I cannot test as it does not work". Looks like a bad joke, > no ? AFAIK PPC

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-08 Thread J. Mayer
On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 15:11 +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > J. Mayer wrote: > [snip] > > Mr Paul Brook did break the PREP and heathrow machines while doing > > changes in the PCI code. There were some posts on this list reporting > > this and he never even tried to fix what he broke. And now he's > >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-08 Thread Thiemo Seufer
J. Mayer wrote: [snip] > Mr Paul Brook did break the PREP and heathrow machines while doing > changes in the PCI code. There were some posts on this list reporting > this and he never even tried to fix what he broke. And now he's > complaining "I cannot test as it does not work". Looks like a bad j

[Qemu-devel] Just to add one single point

2007-04-08 Thread J. Mayer
The main problem here is that the less one can do when collaborating to a project is to respect others work. Then nobody should ever commit anything that touch the code he's not in charge without previously formally do a proposal, wait for reactions and discuss, taking care of others remarks, espec