kumquat-buildroot/board/qemu/ppc64le-powernv8/readme.txt
Cédric Le Goater 7d914839a4 configs/qemu_ppc64le_powernv8: new defconfig
PowerNV is the platform using the OPAL [1] firmware on OpenPOWER
systems. OPAL first loads a kernel and an initramfs image based on
buildroot including a second boot loader petitboot [2]. The latter
does device discovery and kexecs a new Linux image from disk or
network.

QEMU implements PowerNV machines [3] for the POWER8, POWER9 and
Power10 processors which are used for dev and tests. POWER8 images
being compatible with POWER9 and Power10, simply add a single
qemu_ppc64le_powernv8 board for all.

The QEMU script boots directly from a nvme disk because it is simple
enough but a real system would boot from a ramfs first.

[1] https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/blob/master/doc/overview.rst
[2] https://github.com/open-power/petitboot/
[3] https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/ppc/powernv.html

Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
2022-01-11 21:37:28 +01:00

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Run the emulation with:
qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv9 -kernel vmlinux -append "console=hvc0 rootwait root=/dev/nvme0n1" -device nvme,bus=pcie.3,addr=0x0,drive=drive0,serial=1234 -drive file=./rootfs.ext2,if=none,id=drive0,format=raw,cache=none -device e1000e,netdev=net0,mac=C0:FF:EE:00:01:03,bus=pcie.1,addr=0x0 -netdev user,id=net0 -serial mon:stdio -nographic # qemu_ppc64le_powernv8_defconfig
The login prompt will appear in the terminal window.