From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, steven@uplinklabs.net
Cc: alex@csgraf.de, openbios@openbios.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [OpenBIOS] QEMU OpenBIOS booting?
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:47:24 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090419.114724.-1622542522.imp@bsdimp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f488382f0904190128l4383a56eu67a2f16eb338e61c@mail.gmail.com>
In message: <f488382f0904190128l4383a56eu67a2f16eb338e61c@mail.gmail.com>
Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> writes:
: I eventually decided it made more
: sense to get QEMU working instead. I did notice that the pre-OpenBIOS
: version of QEMU was able to boot Mac OS X via Open Hack'Ware, so I was
: annoyed to find that OpenBIOS didn't have such support. So, I might as
: well add it.
Open Hackware was barely enough to boot older versions of Linux.
Other operating systems that needed more extensive properties from the
OpenFirmware device tree failed to boot because they weren't present.
I was involved in a large effort to get FreeBSD/powerpc booting on
QEMU only to have it fail utterly because the amount of hacking on
OpenHackWare needed was rather large and mysterious...
Warner
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-19 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1239525550.5516.3.camel@Quad>
[not found] ` <f488382f0904142246ga431e99obe666b7fb16adb02@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <f488382f0904190050x1d6e9562sf000e9e9763735b7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-04-19 8:03 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [OpenBIOS] QEMU OpenBIOS booting? Andreas Färber
2009-04-19 8:28 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 9:44 ` Andreas Färber
2009-04-19 17:47 ` M. Warner Losh [this message]
2009-04-19 17:56 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 18:44 ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-19 23:18 ` M. Warner Losh
2009-04-20 19:39 ` Blue Swirl
2009-04-20 21:01 ` François Revol
2009-04-20 22:15 ` [OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] " Laurent Vivier
2009-04-19 8:31 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [OpenBIOS] " Laurent Vivier
2009-05-20 13:51 ` Dave Willoughby
2009-05-20 14:14 ` Alexander Graf
[not found] ` <1240129450.5671.7.camel@Quad>
2009-04-19 18:59 ` [Qemu-devel] " Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 19:23 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [OpenBIOS] " Blue Swirl
2009-04-19 20:00 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 20:08 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-19 20:14 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 20:24 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-19 20:33 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 20:48 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-19 21:02 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 21:32 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 22:28 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 22:36 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-20 0:15 ` malc
2009-04-20 3:27 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-20 3:50 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-26 8:13 ` Alexander Graf
2009-04-19 19:47 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-19 19:53 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 20:01 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 20:21 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-19 20:23 ` Steven Noonan
2009-04-19 20:29 ` Laurent Vivier
2009-04-20 9:39 Laurent Vivier
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