Re: Issue with qemu-system-ppc running OSX guests

[Fabiano Rosas]

Howard Spoelstra <hsp.cat7@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:11 PM BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2 Mar 2022, Howard Spoelstra wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I noticed qemu-system-ppc running OSX guests does not get to the desktop
>> or
>> > does not display the menu bars.
>>
>> Cc-ing the relevant people and the PPC list might help, I've added them.
>> Also telling which OSX guest version can reproduce the problem could help
>> debugging. Is it any OSX version?
>>
>> Regards,
>> BALATON Zoltan
>>
>
> Oops, Qemu running on Fedora 35 host,
> Reproducer:
>
> ./qemu-system-ppc \
> -M mac99 \
> -m 512 \
> -L pc-bios \
> -display sdl -serial stdio \
> -boot c \
> -drive file=10.1.img,format=raw,media=disk
>
> The issue affects all supported Mac OSX guests: 10.0 to 10.5

Hi Howard,

Thanks for bisecting this. It seems we inadvertently marked some of the
Vector Multiply instructions to be ISA v2.07 only.

I can boot Mac OSX 10.4 until the desktop with this fix:

diff --git a/target/ppc/translate/vmx-impl.c.inc 
b/target/ppc/translate/vmx-impl.c.inc
index f91bee839d..c5d02d13fe 100644
--- a/target/ppc/translate/vmx-impl.c.inc
+++ b/target/ppc/translate/vmx-impl.c.inc
@@ -3141,14 +3141,14 @@ static bool trans_VMULLD(DisasContext *ctx, arg_VX *a)
     return true;
 }
 
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULESB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULESB)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULOSB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOSB)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULEUB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULEUB)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULOUB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOUB)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULESH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULESH)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULOSH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOSH)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULEUH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULEUH)
-TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULOUH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOUH)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULESB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULESB)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULOSB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOSB)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULEUB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULEUB)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULOUB, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOUB)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULESH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULESH)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULOSH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOSH)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULEUH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULEUH)
+TRANS_FLAGS(ALTIVEC, VMULOUH, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOUH)
 TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULESW, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULESW)
 TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULOSW, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULOSW)
 TRANS_FLAGS2(ALTIVEC_207, VMULEUW, do_vx_helper, gen_helper_VMULEUW)
---

I'll let Lucas comment on it and we can send a proper patch in the
morning.