Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! thanks Rick On Jul 30, 2010, at 1:55 PM, Gary wrote: I've only used the x86 version of QEMU but it's supposed to emulate ARM as well as PPC. But it looks like PearPC is still around as well as PSIM. I forgot all about PSIM -- its docs say they try to emulate OpenFIrmware. q.v. http://ww

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread brian m. carlson
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 pr

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread Gary
I've only used the x86 version of QEMU but it's supposed to emulate ARM as well as PPC. But it looks like PearPC is still around as well as PSIM. I forgot all about PSIM -- its docs say they try to emulate OpenFIrmware. q.v. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-emulation.html -Gary -- T

Re: How can I emulate Debian for PowerPC on Intel processor?

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 30, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Christian Simo wrote: Dear Team! I currently virtualize with vmware, Please how can I run Debian for PPC on Intel or How can I emulate Intel to support PPC OS Thanks in advance The interesting question is what "flavor" of PowerPC? There are NewWorld Macs

Re: patches to ybin

2010-07-30 Thread Gary Driggs
On Jul 30, 2010, at 12:07 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > There's another part of the problem ( a fourth half [-; ). the ofpath > command is broken by the switch to "fake scsi" for ATA and SATA mass storage. That explains a lot. I'd be glad to test any mods you make. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: patches to ybin

2010-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
There's another part of the problem ( a fourth half [-; ). the ofpath command is broken by the switch to "fake scsi" for ATA and SATA mass storage. See bug #572869 It turns out that ofpath is just a shell script. I'll see If I can come up with a patch. Rick On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:47