Re: [Qemu-devel] Looking for an SH4 QEMU-ready kernel (for TCG conversion)

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:54:35PM +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 8/31/08, Aurelien Jarno <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:36:36PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >  >
> >  > Am 30.08.2008 um 00:29 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> >  >
> >  > >On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 11:12:13PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >  > >>Hi,
> >  > >>
> >  > >>Am 28.08.2008 um 23:17 schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> >  > >>
> >  > >>>By the way, patches
> >  > >>>for the PPC and Alpha target are also welcome.
> >  > >>
> >  > >>I'd be interested in helping with ppc but I have a problem testing
> >  > >>such
> >  > >>changes: ppc-softmmu does not boot anything, ppc-linux-user does
> >  > >>not seem
> >  > >
> >  > >ppc-softmmu is able to boot prep kernels (-M prep), but
> >  > >unfortunately the
> >  > >support for this platform has been removed from upstream along with
> >  > >the
> >  > >ppc/ arch (since 2.6.26).
> >  >
> >  > According to Wikipedia, Debian and NetBSD still maintain PReP support.
> >  > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_Reference_Platform
> >
> >  This is now mostly wrong, PReP support in Debian has been removed from
> >  unstable just after the release of Etch. Debian Lenny won't support it.
> >
> >  > What's missing in QEMU's default g3bw machine that only PReP is known
> >  > to work? I've tested booting into Debian 4.0 r4a netinst CD (2.6.18?)
> >  > on a real PowerMac G3 blue&white and it works.
> >
> >  A decent BIOS.
> 
> Now that the future of OHW looks uncertain, perhaps someone with PPC
> knowledge could implement the missing pieces of OpenBIOS for PPC?
> There is already some support for pearpc, mol and briq machines.

That looks like the sane way to go yes.

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