From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lvcz9-0000Js-My for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:47:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lvcz4-0000Go-Fr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:47:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52066 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lvcz4-0000Gh-8o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:47:22 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:55065) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lvcz3-0001If-Kn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:47:22 -0400 From: Laurent Vivier In-Reply-To: References: <1239525550.5516.3.camel@Quad> <1240129450.5671.7.camel@Quad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:47:04 +0200 Message-Id: <1240170424.5659.7.camel@Quad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [OpenBIOS] QEMU OpenBIOS booting? Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: The OpenBIOS Mailinglist Cc: Alexander Graf , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Le dimanche 19 avril 2009 =C3=A0 11:59 -0700, Steven Noonan a =C3=A9crit : > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Laurent Vivier wr= ote: > > Le dimanche 19 avril 2009 =C3=A0 00:50 -0700, Steven Noonan a =C3=A9cri= t : > >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Steven Noonan wrote: > >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Laurent Vivier wrote: > >> >> OpenBIOS is not able to boot MacOS X. > >> > > >> > Well, that's a silly limitation. Is there a reason this isn't > >> > implemented? I see that the Mac-on-Linux OpenBIOS version has such > >> > support, so it seems strange that the QEMU version does not. > >> > >> I don't know if anyone here is actually interested (this list seems > >> -very- quiet), but... > > > > Hi, > > > >> I've been hacking at OpenBIOS for a bit, and I got it to properly read > >> Mac OS X discs (it kept failing because it would hit an Apple > >> Partition Map header instead of an HFS+ filesystem header). I'm > >> working on adding an XCOFF loader, too, so it should be able to boot > >> Mac OS X soon. > > > > You can copy it from OpenHackWare. > > I made some tests and it seems to have some memory conflicts between > > MacOS kernel and OpenBIOS. In fact what I have is a Mach-O loader which load mach_kernel from "/". > > Good Luck. > > >=20 > Two more pre-XCOFF loader commits up: > http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/e43daa3447b5ce4a2b05b2f32882e4989= 1156200 > http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/7023b78a10f5632fd08d4749615efd3e7= 3ab1036 Seems good but do you really need to check for embedded XCOFF in this patch and are you really able to execute the boot-script ? In Panther Install CD, BootX is: MacRISC MacRISC3 MacRISC4 Boot Loader for Mac OS X. ... load-base begin dup 6 " </CHRP" $=3D if 6 + dup 6 " -BOOT>" $=3D if 8 + true else false then else 1+ false then until ( xcoff-base ) load-size over load-base - - ( xcoff-base xcoff-size ) load-base swap move init-program go [...XCOFF HERE] Regards, Laurent