@miggymac

Can you paste the command line options how you've started the Kickstart?
I get a crash before that.
Just curious to see.

@tlosm

I´m not sure, but OS4 for SAM460 may not contain CLGD5446 driver.

@mulder77

Welcome!

..Any news about OS4 compatibility under sam460 emulation?
Does we have to wait for a next release?

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John 3:16

i dont know about os4 but aros (ppc) is working on qemu pretty well ba now. im using it almost every day to cross check big endian software. the performance doesnt seem very high though. perhaps there is some sort of jit somewhere i didnt care for, because i need it only for testing.

this is the today pull with many Zoltan improvements.
I dint have test it yet. will write after work the config line for make user test with os4



git://github.com/dgibson/qemu.git tags/ppc-for-3.0-20180612

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@tlosm

Good news, I'll wait about your config line.
I'd like to use it with powermac g5 11.2, a quad core powerpc g5 beast renewed for os4.
Could you compile a special version for powermac?

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Oh, quite interesting. Didn't think about this.
So there is no CPU emulation involved if qemu is executed on a G4 Mac mini (Linux)?
That would eliminate a huge bottleneck, I guess.

I compiled from the given repository, but OS4.1 still crashes when Kickstart has been loaded.
So I'd be interested in the options, too.

@mulder77

The linux kernel for now make difference from kvm in Book3e (Sam,x5000,601) and book3s (603,604.G4,G5,Power).
All powerpc cpu are full compatible in instruction set .
Example on my G5 i have my old ssd with linux 16.04 full working that was installed on my x5000.

Pratically now you cant run kvm virtualized sam 460 on Mini or G5 because the kvm kernel limit.

Hope my english is understandable :P


PS: zoltan today make new updateds on sources

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@tlosm

Not sure, if I got it right.
Does it mean, even on G4 Macs the CPU must be emulated, if the Sam460 is emulated?

If you can share your knowledge how you proceeded further with the boot process, that'd be highly appreciated.

@mulder77

exactly it have to be emulated and not virtualized because the kvm limitations. i repeat the cpus are 100% compatible.

@All
for the command line, please wait a little bit because in Zolatan have included the cirrus pci compatibility in Qemu Sam and many many new updates and fix and will probably included in next git pull and is better for me test before share.

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@tlosm

Is there any possibility to enable kvm on powermacs?
How much we have to wait for a next version with OS4 gfx card compatibility?

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@tlosm

Thanks for the info. The work is much appreciated.
Will be interesting to see how well the CPU emulation on a current x86_64 CPU will be.
In WinUAE, OS4 via qemu-plugin is ok, so I very interested to see how a Sam460 will be like.

@Fl@sh

about kvm on powermac for now is not possible because the kvm limitations that i had wrote on prw post.
On X86_64 for my test on Threadripper the Qemu perfrom really really well on Integer it is poor on FPU and GFX performances because only 2D.

About the GFX qemu-ppc on X86_64 can do the vfio pci-stub it mean, if some one have a PC with pci slot and a pci gpu amigaos compatible, probably will have this gpu as native on Qemu Sam460.

On old PPC host the vfio dont work for now,sorry, probably in future kernel implamentations? who know..

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@tlosm

you testing with linux, right? cant tell for sure because i dont know what benchmarks to use, but aros ppc in qemu under a vm on an i5 or i7 boots slow, seems speedwise alright but when it comes to heavy apps, perhaps with fpu involvement, im not srertain, gets pretty sluggish.

@wawa

Yes im using linux

My speed comment is not about qemu-Sam460 that is in middle stage many things need to be improved . my overall speed testing on Qemu is with the MacOsX tiger (g3beige) with GeekBench and with e5500 (x5000 ppce500) with hw monitor and dnetc. I know Sam 460 qemu need improvements but Zoltan is working harder . im sure in future everything will be much better in Sam 460 emulation.

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@tlosm

im not sure zoltan can improve cpu emulation. it is as it is i guess, and im talking about pure number crunching, not responsivity of the gui or things like that. i fear on x86(_64) emulated single core performence of a ppc remains and will probably stay in the area of an emulated m68k (respectively with or without jit).

btw, en course compiling odyssey for ppc, some peculiarities of ammc440/460 cpus came to light. they dont affect most of usual code but usually c++ multithreaded (as far as im able to tell). concretely the cpu doenst know lwsync insn and the code needs to be sompiled without it or the system needs to emulate it with sync after its been cought in an exception. which is both ways performance issue in comparison to other ppc cpus executing the same code.

it isnt probably a crucial issue, so far only this was a prroblem, but it may indicate that emulating a higher class ppc cpu, perhaps even an g4 and using an apropriate version of system in that emulated environment might be a more performent option. unfortunatelly for os4 it would require writing an amigaone emulation instead of sam440 i assume.

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@tlosm

Hi, do you know ho to use/enable the virtual GFX/PCI redirection? Or a web page that shows an example.
I dl'ed (2018.06.15) and build qemu under Linux ubuntu on a X86 machine, but seems sm502 gfx isn't complete emulated, so it doen't go into Workbench, just stays on AmigaOS bootlogo (aros sam440ppc works/loads, but only has 640x480 resolution).

The Linux box is a Q8300 (IIRC) with an ATI X1600/X1550 PCIe pluged.
TIA

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@jabirulo

redirection for qemu-ppc is working only on pci hw and not on pcie.
in any way you can read about vfio and pci-stub here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

or here

https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM

but there are many website about

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