Run the emulation with:

 qemu-system-ppc -M ppce500 -cpu e500mc -m 256 -kernel output/images/uImage -drive file=output/images/rootfs.ext2,if=virtio,format=raw -net nic,model=virtio-net-pci -net user -append "console=ttyS0 rootwait root=/dev/vda" -serial mon:stdio -nographic # qemu_ppc_e500mc_defconfig

The login prompt will appear in the terminal that started Qemu.