any pointers on how to qemu-system-ppc a powerpc kernel on 11.10?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  (while this question has a lot of powerpc and qemu content, i'm
trying to do this on my ubuntu 11.10 system, so i figured i'd check if
someone here has already been down this road.)

  i have a lite5200b system board, so i built myself a kernel from the
latest kernel source using the "lite5200b_defconfig" configuration.
what i got out of that was the standard "vmlinux" kernel file, as well
as "zImage" and "uImage" files that are U-Boot ready.

  i just want to fire up "qemu-system-ppc" from the qemu-system
package and test the kernel; i have no root filesystem yet so i know
starting the kernel will eventually result in dying due to lack of
root filesystem.  no problem, i'm good with that.

  but trying something simple like:

  $ qemu-system-ppc vmlinux

produces:

qemu: hardware error: qemu: could not load PowerPC bios 'openbios-ppc'

so i'm in the process of googling to see what else i need.  has anyone
else gone through this on their ubuntu system?  i just want to get
to the point of starting the kernel, at which point i think i'll be
able to take it from there.  thanks.

rday

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