From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NMmXY-0001mp-Om for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NMmXT-0001mD-E3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:27 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52543 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NMmXT-0001mA-9L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:23 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57724 helo=mx2.suse.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NMmXT-0004lz-3E for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:59:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4B2FB779.5060606@suse.de> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:59:21 +0100 From: Alexander Graf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] M68K Or PPC Status Update to Run Mac OS in Qemu References: <4b2f2099.9d53f10a.2eb2.4a1dSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.google.com> <26969886-B5AD-4BE0-A5E7-5B8D40E83F36@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <26969886-B5AD-4BE0-A5E7-5B8D40E83F36@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: G 3 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org G 3 wrote: > > On Dec 21, 2009, at 2:13 AM, qemu-devel-request@nongnu.org > wrote: > >> On 20.12.2009, at 21:32, Leo B wrote: >> >> >>> A while back I know someone was working on PPC Support in Qemu to be >>> able to run Mac OS9-Mac OS X in Qemu on X86 PC's not sure about M68K >>> support though so is anybody still working on M68K support or PPC >>> Support and how far is it from being included in a stable Qemu >>> release,I notice Power PC Support still says Testing on the status >>> page how far is it from being complete? >>> >> >> M68k with non-colfire targets is pretty much non-existing. At least >> when it comes to system emulation (which is the one you're interested >> in). >> >> >> As for PPC, the CPU and device emulation code should work fine for >> OSX up to 10.2 or 10.3. Then Apple dropped support for the G3 Beige. >> >> >> The major bit missing to get those to work is OpenBIOS. It's missing >> some Forth extension that the OSX bootloader uses, so it fails to >> load the kernel and boot. >> >> >> Alex >> > > What exactly is missing in OpenBIOS. I am currently studying the IEEE > 1275 document (OpenBIOS specifications). I would like to add this > system if I can. OpenBIOS is missing an implementation for local variables. See this thread: http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2009-July/003796.html Alex