Re: [Qemu-devel] atapi on ppc issue (was Re: qemu-system-ppc broken ?)

[Andreas Färber]

Am 09.11.2008 um 23:07 schrieb François Revol:

> > > > Though I still can't seem to get OpenHackware to read the CD:
> > > > ERROR: ATAPI TEST_UNIT_READY : status 50 != 0x40
> > >
> > > I suppose OpenHackware only compares instead of checking the ready
> > > bit...
>
> The attached patch makes OpenHackware happy again.
> At least qemu-system-ppc can now start debian iso, and mine as well
[...]
> OpenHackware should be fixed instead, but it seems the binary in svn
> has been updated after the last sources I found
[...]
> Seems the last update was already about ATAPI...
> Anyone has the latest source used ?
> I could at least fix it to check for bits on errors...

Rene Rebe recently posted some diff against qemu's OHW diff, but it  
appeared to be whitespace-damaged.

> Of course it'd be much better to switch to a real OF instead...
> but I don't have the time for that, couldn't find usable OpenBIOS
> images,

I once tried to get OpenBIOS working but failed, Laurent appeared to  
get some further - any update on that?

> and it see[m]s CoreBoot v2 and v3 don't support ppc yet.

I believe CoreBoot is unrelated to ppc, it replaces the x86 BIOS. It  
does allow to use OpenBIOS (Open Firmware) as payload but not the  
other direction - Blue Swirl used some assembler wizardry to bootstrap  
the sparc OpenBIOS.

Andreas