Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [RFC PATCH 09/12] ppc440: Add emulation of plb-pcix controller found in some 440 SoCs

[François Revol]

Hi,

Le 18/08/2017 à 11:30, luigi burdo a écrit :
> hi Balaton, i can help with amigaos4 for sam . i can test it on P5040
> book3e and on G5 quad book3s machine. note sam for boot amigaos need
> a special modified version of uboot that is available on acube
> website it is a firmware update. without modified uboot will be not
> posdible auto boot amigaos. idont know if is possible use standard
> uboot incuded in qemu for boot amigaos from uboot command line. i can
> ask help to Enrico Vidale as my FB friend but i dont know if he will
> be available for this kind of helping.
> 

Yes they use their own custom U-Boot, with a lot of changes and code
duplication, and added x86 emulation to run a VGA BIOS, and never
upstreamed the changes... much like any other vendor, sadly.

I once managed to build a binary from their published source code with
an old compiler, although it's not exactly the same of the binary used,
which I think is actually run with the on-chip RAM or something weird alike.

François.