On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:03:55AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > The interesting question is what "flavor" of PowerPC? There are > NewWorld Macs, OldWorld Macs, and a few flavors of IBM and embedded > powerPC, each with their own boot firmware interface. > > I've never used qemu, but I'm told it provides an emulated PPC VM. > But I have no idea of which boot firmware it emulates, if any. > Anybody know?
It actually emulates several different types of PPCs: lakeview ok % qemu-system-ppc -M '?' Supported machines are: mpc8544ds mpc8544ds bamboo bamboo ref405ep ref405ep taihu taihu mac99 Mac99 based PowerMAC g3beige Heathrow based PowerMAC (default) prep PowerPC PREP platform As far as actual firmware, I believe it's Open Firmware, either through openbios-ppc or openhackware. A long time ago, I tried to install Mac OS X 10.1 but was unsuccessful. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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