Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1290558] color issue (ppc as guest)

[Joe Mert]

Hi Mark,

It still seems to me that the problem is somewhere *within* the qemu tree but 
specific to all MacOSX hosts, and not to my individual build environment. I 
have done some further research and I found for example 
http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/ppc-osx-on-qemu-for-osx
It lists my exact problem at the bottom of the page under "known issues". 
(Known to whom, if it seems not to have reached the qemu team yet). It is also 
present under OSX 10.9.2, which I tried today.    

Also I've tried out the latest builds from qemu.org with the same results.  
qemu-system-ppc --version returns 1.7.90 (though I downloaded 2.0.0 rc0)
Interestingly, using qemu-system-ppc64 instead produces the correct colors at 
the very start of the booting, though of course it doesn't get anywhere else 
since MacOSX 10.4 and 10.5 are both still 32 bit kernels as far as I know. 
However, that is at least an indicator that the problem may not be the build 
environment because that environment was exactly the same for qemu-system-ppc 
and qemu-system-ppc64

Thanks for your efforts, I appreciate it! 
Joe.   


On 27.03.2014, at 01:16, Mark Cave-Ayland <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
> 
> Thanks for confirming that you still see the issue with the ISO above.
> From what you're saying, it seems that the problem is apparent on OS X
> which means I am definitely unable to recreate it here. Since other OS X
> QEMU users would likely have noticed the bug, I think it may be
> something related to the build environment.
> 
> My suspicion would lie with the libraries used to build QEMU,
> particularly pixman which is the low-level graphics library used. Do you
> know whether the pixman submodule from git.qemu.org was used, or whether
> it was sourced from somewhere else? Unfortunately as I don't use OS X
> myself it's going to be difficult for me to help you further with the
> build unless it's just general advice about building QEMU.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Mark.
> 
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> Title:
>  color issue (ppc as guest)
> 
> Status in QEMU:
>  New
> 
> Bug description:
>  Hi,
> 
>  on my qemu 1.6.1 -- installed via fink on host Mac OS X 10.8 -- guest 
> PowerPc with Mac OS X 10.4 from original install disk, boots fine but I 
> observe a color issue exactly as described here: 
>  http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3197
>  http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3189
> 
>  Has the problem been reported and/or fixed already? Is any workaround known 
> or has one been suggested? 
>  I apologize for a "fuzzy" problem description, but I am not an expert user. 
> You may get in touch with me directly at address@hidden
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Joe.
> 
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Title:
  color issue (ppc as guest)

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi,

  on my qemu 1.6.1 -- installed via fink on host Mac OS X 10.8 -- guest PowerPc 
with Mac OS X 10.4 from original install disk, boots fine but I observe a color 
issue exactly as described here: 
  http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3197
  http://virtuallyfun.superglobalmegacorp.com/?p=3189

  Has the problem been reported and/or fixed already? Is any workaround known 
or has one been suggested? 
  I apologize for a "fuzzy" problem description, but I am not an expert user. 
You may get in touch with me directly at address@hidden

  Thanks,
  Joe.

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