Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ppc: Add MacOS VGA driver ROM

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 2016-08-02 at 07:25 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > That's the part we cannot provide unfortunately. There is sadly no
> > toolchain that can produce a MacOS PEF binary other than hosted in
> > MacOS itself. In fact I don't think Apple XCode can either, which
> > leaves us with CodeWarrior (commercial) or MPW (which I think at some
> > point became free but I didn't find it and it doesn't work on OS X
> > afaik).
> 
> Firmware builds often have specific requirements, such as only working
> on $arch due to firmware not being cross-buildable (thats why there are
> the prebuilt binaries in the first place).  So if those makefile rules
> work only on macos with CodeWarrior installed that is perfectly fine.

Right though in that case it's not a Makefile, it's a CodeWarrior
project in .xml form ;-) It is included in the git repo.

CodeWarrior for MacOS X does come with command line versions of the
tools, I plan to look into doing a Makefile once I've sorted out the
various arguments for these things at least.

Cheers,
Ben.