On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 08:15 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 19:21 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > > But, I could not boot ./darwinppc-602.cdr with on a 970. That > > might > > be another issue. > > Right, the issue is that the kernel in Darwin 6.0.2 doesn't support > the > 970 :-) > > I think the first MacOS X to support 970 was some special build of > 10.2.8 or something along those lines, which is slightly after Darwin > 6.0.2 was released. > > Now that being said, Darwin 8.0.1 is also not booting in 970 and that > is possible a real issue, but I don't think it's realted to those > patches since that happens with current upstream7 > > I can look into it later (they both boot fine with a 7400).
Ok so Darwin uses some of the HSPRG etc... that we don't emulate on the 970 so I suspect it never worked. I've added them but something else breaks, I'll dig, I have the kernel source so it shouldn't be too hard ;-) Cheers, Ben.
