Hello Mark, On 07/11/2016 08:11 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 11/07/16 08:51, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > >>> Hmmm if that's the same 9.2.1 image we were using for last year's GSoC >>> then it has been working fine here? From what I've seen both 9.2.1 and >>> 9.2.2 now boot fine, but please test and report if that's not the case. >> >> Hello Mark, >> >> I managed to boot and install a 9.2.1. Here is what I have used for >> that : >> >> * qemu, David's 2.7 branch, plus Ben's patch "v2 ppc: Fix support >> for odd MSR combinations". >> >> * openbios, github's HEAD + the patch your patch from : >> >> https://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/openbios/2015-June/008722.html >> >> * iso, the os9.osi from >> >> http://c-obrien.org/qemu-os9/testing/ >> >> There are a couple of qemu errors : >> >> dbdma_unassigned_rw: use of unassigned channel 14 >> dbdma_unassigned_flush: use of unassigned channel 14 >> CUDA: unknown command 0x24 >> >> and invalids read/write on SPRs but it didn't cause any issue in the guest >> at installation time or later at runtime. I did not try network though. >> >> So mainline only misses your forth patch. Looking really good ! > > Hi Cédric, > > That's exactly what I see here, thanks for testing. For the unassigned > channels there is potentially scope for doing something better for ESCC, > however the aim for this patchset was to merge the minimal changes > required to enable testing.
So, what are the release plans for OpenBIOS ? It would be good to have the macos9 support available in qemu-2.7. Thanks, C.
