Re: booting powerpc64le under qemu

On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:46:02 +0100
Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote:

> Justin Hibbits wrote in <[email protected]>:
> > Try at
> > https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/powerpc/powerpc64le/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/
> >  
> 
> this image fails with the same SRR0 value as the current main image.
> 
> > If 14.3 is fine, and 15.0 is not, maybe there's a compiler
> > difference?  
> 
> 14-STABLE and main are using the same compiler (LLVM 19.1.7), so i
> don't think it's a compiler version difference.
> 
> unfortunately i have no idea where to start debugging this, but for
> now i'll probably land the change i was trying to test[0] without
> testing on powerpc64le, since it fixes powerpc64 and the logic is the
> same for both.
> 
> [0] https://reviews.freebsd.org/D52638

Interesting news:  I tested 02a8fadd2c (August 19 snapshot at the link
above), and the bootonly.iso crashed the same way as you posted.
However, I tested the qcow2 VM image, from
https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/15.0-CURRENT/02a8fadd2c4dc4b78d6d93d9d8b70e9348a6de6d/powerpc/powerpc64le/
and the VM image booted successfully.  I don't know if that helps you
narrow down anything.

- Justin