Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC fixes for qemu/OpenHackWare

[Thayne Harbaugh]

On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 21:46 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> > These fixes greatly improve qemu booting on PPC - many Linux

Should be "emulating PPC" rather than "booting on PPC".


> Very good !

Thanks - I should mention that Matthew S. Wood did quite a bit of the
work.

>  Have you looked at Darwin and Mac OS X ? I feel QEMU (and 
> OpenHackWare) are very close to launch them: at least all the hardware 
> emulation is there.

I haven't looked at them.  I'd like to try OSX, but I don't have a copy
and haven't bugged the right person for one.  Hopefully I'll get around
to it, however it isn't as high of a priority as generl PPC emulation.

>  I am unable to look at the problem because I don't 
> have an easy way to recompile the Darwin kernel to insert debug 
> messages... and another problem is that I don't have the time :-)

I might be in the same boat, unfortunately.  I'm mostly hoping that if
the general problems get fixed then it will be easier for someone to
pursue the special case problems.  If qemu/OpenHackWare can be show to
be generally solid and work well for linux/ppc, then hopefully some
that's motivated to have OSX or Darwin will give it a go.

I'm interested to know when the patches will be applied to Qemu and
OpenHackWare or when I'll get feedback regarding what needs to be done
differently.

Thanks.