Re: [Qemu-devel] Mac OS X PPC host support (was: [4932] Preliminary PPC64/Linux host support)

[malc]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Andreas F?rber wrote:

> Am 31.07.2008 um 20:57 schrieb malc:
>
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Blue Swirl wrote:

[..snip..]

> > My MacOS X stuff is outdated so maybe the i386 problem is not a TCG one,
> > testing from uptodate MacOS X/PPC32 people would be needed. And i think
> > someone more MacOS X inclined should take over this part.
>
>
> I still think your Apple linkage area define is incorrect. The ABI document 
> clearly says it's 24 bytes, with some reserved space in there after the three 
> fields. You sure it's safe to strip that space?

Yes, you are right i missed the 'Note: ...' part.

> Leaving my linkage area in and applying your alignment fixes I was finally 
> able to boot into Sparc Etch.
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/afaerber.git?a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/tcg-osx-ppc
>
> Thanks a lot for your help so far!

You are welcome, but this is most likely as far as i can ever get, to
reiterate: MacOS X is too foreign for me and working in it is a great
pain - sorry.

> After some progress on booting, I get a whole screen full of "esp0: Data 
> transfer overrun." - sounds related to your i386 issue. The monitor is 
> awfully slow at that point, i.e. ~1 second per char typed. Last time I saw 
> these, something was wrong in slavio interrupt handling I believe - haven't 
> checked on another platform yet.

Can you try i386 testimage (http://bellard.org/qemu/linux-0.2.img.bz2)?
Does it behave the same as on my box?

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