Re: booting powerpc64le under qemu

On Sat, 20 Sep 2025 18:59:47 +0100
Lexi Winter <ivy@freebsd.org> wrote:

> hi Justin,
> 
> Justin Hibbits wrote in <20250920134004.4acceced@ralga.knownspace>:
> > Your command line looks fine, could you try a -CURRENT disc1.iso
> > from the last couple months?  Maybe something broke.  I have a
> > powerpc64le VM that boots fine, but the image is fairly old (about
> > a year), I used a CI artifact for it.  
> 
> do you happen to know where i can find older -CURRENT ISO images?  i
> had a look on ci.freebsd.org but i don't see any.
> 
> i did test the last 14.3-STABLE snapshot and that boots fine.  if
> necessary i can switch to an old src commit and try to build disc1,
> but i'm not sure at which point this actually produced a working
> image (it is currently broken, which is what i'm trying to fix).

Try at
https://download.freebsd.org/snapshots/powerpc/powerpc64le/ISO-IMAGES/15.0/

If 14.3 is fine, and 15.0 is not, maybe there's a compiler difference?
Another thought, is there an endian problem with it that we're not
accounting for?  My first money's on the compiler.  I don't know
offhand if the compiler is different between 14.3 and 15.0.

- Justin