I was, until recently able to boot qemu-system-ppc (v1.7.0) using a customized cross compiled Linux kernel and BusyBox. I even posted it here: qemu kernel debugging with KGDB
However I am unable to do so now with v2.0.2. The command I use to invoke qemu is the very same I used previously
qemu-system-ppc -M mpc8544ds -m 512 -kernel zImage -s -nographic -initrd busyboxfs.img -append "root=/dev/ram rdinit=/bin/sh kgdboc=ttyS0,115200 kgdbwait
can anyone help me see the console log so I can understand if it is indeed booting and if not what is the problem. I've tried without the kgdb arguments to the kernel but still all I see is blank.
You might want to have a look at Buildroot (http://www.buildroot.org) : we have three PowerPC defconfigs that boot fine under recent versions of Qemu, including 2.0.2 and 2.1.2.
See especially the qemu_ppc_g3beige_defconfig, which boots fine under Qemu 2.1.2, the qemu_ppc_mpc8544ds_defconfig, which boots fine under Qemu 2.0.2, and qemu_ppc_virtex_ml507_defconfig, which boots fine under Qemu 2.1.2.