Hello,

On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, Howard Spoelstra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Qemu-system-ppc built from current master can no longer run Fedora 12 ppc
> as guest. (This the only ppc distro I tested.) Host is Fedora 34. Please
> see screen shot attached.
> Booting from both an installation DVD and from an installed system fail.
>
> To reproduce:
> compile qemu-system-ppc from current master and run:
>
> ./qemu-system-ppc \
> -M mac99,via=pmu \
> -m 1024 \
> -L pc-bios \
> -boot d \
> -cdrom Fedora-12-ppc-DVD.iso \
> -g 1024x768x8
>
> I tracked the issue down to this commit:
>
> 8f0a4b6a9b40e18116a2bb6bbcc00feb8119c792 is the first bad commit
> commit 8f0a4b6a9b40e18116a2bb6bbcc00feb8119c792

There's a fix for a similar problem I've seen with AROS and pegasos2
firmware 1.2 that's in today's pull request:

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2021-07/msg00281.html

That should likely fixes this. Can you try with that (either once it's
merged or from David's for-6.1 branch).

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan