Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] PPC: Mac99 emulation fixes

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 14/07/14 15:00, Alexander Graf wrote:

> On 14.07.14 15:58, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>> On 13/07/14 17:17, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>
>>> While trying to get Mac OS X booting with our -M mac99 emulation I
>>> stumbled
>>> over a few issues that prevented it from doing so.
>>>
>>> With these patches applied I still can't properly boot Mac OS X with
>>> -M mac99,
>>> but I get a lot further than before. The biggest issue that's left
>>> now is to
>>> properly fake Mac OS X into believing our timebase frequency. If I
>>> hack up the
>>> cuda timer I can successfully boot Mac OS X on mac99:
>>
>> No complaints from me on this series (I see Paolo has already
>> commented suggested some MemoryRegion changes). Is this part of a
>> bug-fix series to fix a -M mac99 regression on KVM or is it 2.2 material?
>
> Mac99 never really worked for me, so I think this can easily be 2.2
> material. Maybe we can get the PCI bus working during the 2.2
> development time frame too then.
>
> I mostly CC'ed you for the NVRAM patch, as that depends on an OpenBIOS
> change :).

Yup, saw that commit go into SVN trunk. Okay so no need to worry about 
re-running my OpenBIOS boot tests before the 2.1 release then :)


ATB,

Mark.