[Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2

[Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2

[J. Mayer]

Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2 is available for tests here:
<http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/OpenHackWare-0.4-pre2_bin.tar.bz2>
<http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/OpenHackWare-0.4-pre2_svn.tar.bz2>

It includes all fixes that went into 0.4-pre1, of course. A lot of new
images have been tested and OHW is now able at least to start booting
most of them.
Please consult the README file for more details:
<http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/README>

The main known issues are:
- PREP boot is broken (regression)
- kernel boot in memory is broken (regression, at least for PREP).
Those two points will be fixed for 0.4 release.

- Linux 2.6 frame-buffer is buggy. Some of the symptoms are known to
appear on real Macs, some other will have to be fixed.
- Linux 2.6 seem to have some problems with some parts of the hardware
emulation (at least IDE & ADB: seem to be qemu issues)
- NE2k emulation in qemu seems incomplete: most installer will fail if
trying to autoconfigure the network when no dhcp server is found (then,
using tun networking): installers all want to probe ethernet link but
MII seem not to answer properly.

For now, only Debian Sarge and Gentoo are known to be installable.
Please note that top in Debian Sarge is buggy when using recent kernels
(even 2.4) and would crash after 2 refreshes. This seems to be a known
issue due to /proc/stat format changes. This does not happen with Gentoo
distribution.

Please report any other issue / success.

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized

Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2

[Asko Kauppi]

Are you testing on Ubuntu/PPC, too?

 > - unbuntu does not load (no boot file found).

This is the error I got when trying out QEmu last time.  Any chance it  
could be fixed in the future?

-ak


14.3.2005 kello 16:35, J. Mayer kirjoitti:

  Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2 is available for tests here:
> <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/OpenHackWare 
> -0.4-pre2_bin.tar.bz2>
> <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/OpenHackWare 
> -0.4-pre2_svn.tar.bz2>
>
> It includes all fixes that went into 0.4-pre1, of course. A lot of new
> images have been tested and OHW is now able at least to start booting
> most of them.
> Please consult the README file for more details:
> <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/README>
>
> The main known issues are:
> - PREP boot is broken (regression)
> - kernel boot in memory is broken (regression, at least for PREP).
> Those two points will be fixed for 0.4 release.
>
> - Linux 2.6 frame-buffer is buggy. Some of the symptoms are known to
> appear on real Macs, some other will have to be fixed.
> - Linux 2.6 seem to have some problems with some parts of the hardware
> emulation (at least IDE & ADB: seem to be qemu issues)
> - NE2k emulation in qemu seems incomplete: most installer will fail if
> trying to autoconfigure the network when no dhcp server is found (then,
> using tun networking): installers all want to probe ethernet link but
> MII seem not to answer properly.
>
> For now, only Debian Sarge and Gentoo are known to be installable.
> Please note that top in Debian Sarge is buggy when using recent kernels
> (even 2.4) and would crash after 2 refreshes. This seems to be a known
> issue due to /proc/stat format changes. This does not happen with  
> Gentoo
> distribution.
>
> Please report any other issue / success.
>
> -- 
> J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
> Never organized
>
>
>
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2

[J. Mayer]

On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 18:39 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
> Are you testing on Ubuntu/PPC, too?

I'm testing _only_ PPC version.
Open Hack'Ware is an open-firmware like implementation, so it cannot
boot any
PC OSes...

> 
>  > - unbuntu does not load (no boot file found).
> 
> This is the error I got when trying out QEmu last time.  Any chance it  
> could be fixed in the future?

I have no special plan to fix it for the next release.
But I know ISOFS boot is broken, so that may explain why unbuntu does
not boot.
I did not check the CD image, by now, just seen it does not load.
ISOFS boot fix is planed, because it will be needed for PREP boot and
also for some other PMAC Linux distributions (crux...).

[...]


> 14.3.2005 kello 16:35, J. Mayer kirjoitti:
> 
>   Open Hack'Ware 0.4-pre2 is available for tests here:
> > <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/OpenHackWare 
> > -0.4-pre2_bin.tar.bz2>
> > <http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/0.4-pre2/OpenHackWare 
> > -0.4-pre2_svn.tar.bz2>

[...]

-- 
J. Mayer <l_indien@magic.fr>
Never organized