Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC fixes for qemu/OpenHackWare

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> These fixes greatly improve qemu booting on PPC - many Linux
> distributions with kernel 2.4 now work.  It's two big patches (one for
> qemu, one for OpenHackWare) - let me know if someone prefers them broken
> out into smaller pieces.
> 
> There's still some work to be done to get PREP in good shape as well as
> a Linux 2.6 kernel to work well - expect some more patches in the near
> future.
> 
> Highlights
> 
> * Real serial
> * Correct PCI host bridge for PREP (wrong in Pearpc, Qemu and
> OpenHackWare)
> * -Werror building for OpenHackWare
> * proper reboot
> * HFS OpenHackWare now correctly traverses the B*tree - greatly improves
> probability of booting *all* HFS based filesystems
> * Many, MANY other fixes

Very good ! Have you looked at Darwin and Mac OS X ? I feel QEMU (and 
OpenHackWare) are very close to launch them: at least all the hardware 
emulation is there. I am unable to look at the problem because I don't 
have an easy way to recompile the Darwin kernel to insert debug 
messages... and another problem is that I don't have the time :-)

Fabrice.