On 14.12.2010, at 01:49, Andreas Färber wrote: > Hello, > > Based on an earlier attempt of mine to make OpenBIOS work with -M prep, > with kind support from Hervé Poussineau here's an initial stab at > fixing the long-broken PReP emulation and preparing migration from > abandoned OpenHack'Ware to OpenBIOS as default FOSS firmware. > > In particular a number of hw_error()s are resolved, so that the BIOS > can be entered at all. It is not yet working in terms of serial and > VGA support etc. > > This series is also available from: > > git://repo.or.cz/qemu/afaerber.git prep-queue > > Some more work-in-progress for the curious is on my prep branch [2]. > The corresponding work-in-progress OpenBIOS changes are at [3]. > > Unfortunately the prep machine is lacking documentation what exactly it > tries to emulate. The plan thus is to merge emulation of a second, real > IBM 40p machine based on Hervé's work at [1], for use with original > binary firmware. > > Also upcoming are new ppc_chrp machines, forked from ppc_newworld, > emulating the 970-based IBM JS20 (using Apple U3) [4] and possibly the > POWER5-based IntelliStation 285. These depend on the ongoing ppc64 port > of OpenBIOS to be completed though. This relates to PReP in that the > machine IDs will need to be coordinated.
Does this series actually make anything work, or is it just a first step set to get your development rolling? IOW, would users benefit from having the patches upstream yet? Alex
