Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/7] Misc sm501 improvements

[Peter Maydell]

On 30 June 2018 at 21:34, BALATON Zoltan <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2018, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
>>
>> Version 2 of the sm501 changes with fixes that are needed to get
>> AmigaOS 4.1FE to boot and able to produce graphics.
>>
>> The strange blue-white colors that first appear are actually correct
>> and because of AmigaOS selecting a low resolution PAL mode by default
>> instead of a board specific mode. To work around this one can select
>> the last option to boot the live CD and then select a better board
>> specific mode from ScreenMode Prefs. It takes a while for the
>> ScreenMode window to appear and graphics operations are slow which
>> could use some improvement but at least it seems to work correctly now
>> apart from some unimplemented drawing modes for compositing.
>>
>> If this could be merged before the freeze with the sam460ex patches
>> and Sebastian's ehci patch then QEMU 3.0 could be the first version
>> that can boot AmigaOS.
>
>
> Ping? Sorry to push it but it would be great if this could get in for 3.0.
> Peter, this may need your attention like last time as it's not clear whose
> tree it should go through and David did not seem to be confident taking it
> via the ppc tree.

I can have a look, but really I think these should go via the
ppc tree -- the device is used in a ppc machine and an sh4 one,
and the ppc tree is much more active than sh4.

thanks
-- PMM