FreeBSD on Qemu (emulating PowerPC Mac) not working

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NordicMan

I'd like to run FreeBSD in PowerPC emulation. I'm getting the same error on UTM (based on Qemu 9) on Mac and on Qemu 7 on Raspberry Pi. Basically it boots up to a certain point where it says "pci0: <unknown> at device 16.0 (no driver attached)" then "panic: no PIC detected".

The following is the command I tried on Qemu 7 (I get exactly the same boot sequence on UTM aka Qemu 9):

qemu-system-ppc -hda freebsd-powerpc.qcow2 -cdrom FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-powerpc-disc1.iso -m 2047 -M g3beige -boot d -accel tcg

I've fiddled with the parameters (e.g. disabling the tcg accelerator, making RAM smaller etc.) and it makes no difference. Any ideas? Thank you
 
There is a FreeBSD wiki page (last edited 2022-08), https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/QEMU, showing examples on FreeBSD and Linux hosts. Maybe it's of some use.

NordicMan said:
Basically it boots up to a certain point where it says "pci0: <unknown> at device 16.0 (no driver attached)" then "panic: no PIC detected".
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If you can enter the boot menu, "Escape to loader prompt", set boot_verbose=yes. This may provide a more accurate message about where the hang is occurring.
 
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