From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bboh5-0000Qs-Ai for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:52:15 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bboh2-0000Qg-Rg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:52:15 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bboh2-0000Qd-Ok for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:52:12 -0400 Received: from [62.210.190.9] (helo=brazzaville.magic.fr) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bbofj-0004L3-GE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 19 Jun 2004 18:50:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] PPC system emulator From: "J. Mayer" In-Reply-To: <1087667728.21945.113.camel@aragorn> References: <1087567375.21569.159.camel@sherbert> <1087652064.11362.4.camel@rapid> <1087655651.21569.231.camel@sherbert> <1087658637.11364.36.camel@rapid> <1087667728.21945.113.camel@aragorn> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1087685451.11364.47.camel@rapid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 00:50:51 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: jhoger@pobox.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 19:55, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > Hopefully everyone is aware of the OpenBIOS project? They've been doing > the work, and written the Forth code. They know what they're doing. > > Why not just avoid duplication of effort and help them get it into the > shape you need? They are nice folks and always open to help. > I intended to use OpenBIOS but it's really far from being able to boot a PPC machine. And it doesn't intend to support "conventional" boot for PREP, which I need. As I did most of the BIOS code last year when I made my first atempts to run Linux for the PREP emulation, it was really easier to me to add the missing code (mostly hw stuffs) and fix the bugs than start the port of OpenBIOS to PPC target. OpenBIOS is the right long term solution, but I need something right now, so I reuse and improve the code I have. Some of this code (ie PREP boot or some PPC device drivers) may become useful for OpenBIOS too... -- J. Mayer Never organized