Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu/pc-bios ppc_rom.bin

[Blue Swirl]

On 10/1/07, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Am 01.10.2007 um 09:12 schrieb Bob Deblier:
>
> > Ideally we should have an OpenBIOS compiled for QEMU/PPC. Is anyone
> > working on this?
>
> I had looked into this recently but it turned out that PearPC and
> others using OpenBIOS/ppc use an ELF format OpenBIOS binary that is
> incompatible with QEMU, expecting some raw image. I have no idea how
> to go about this; the (working) sparc version uses some "weird"
> assembler initializations. ;-)

You can use:
objcopy -O binary in.elf out.bin

Alternatively, Qemu could be enhanced to try loading ELF first and
binary if that fails.