Re: [Qemu-ppc] Windows NT 4.0 for PowerPC

[Programmingkid]

> On Jul 27, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Răzvan Corneliu C.R. VILT <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> 
> Andrei Warkentin managed to get as far as booting veneer.exe but it crashes 
> at the NT Kernel using his prephv build (https://github.com/andreiw/prephv/).
> 
> OpenBIOS cannot load PE Images and I believe that even if PE loading was 
> added to it, it wouldn't help since you also have some special requirements 
> for little endian booting and some for the load-base.
> 
> Veneer.exe is basically an emulator for the ARC Firmware needed by the NT 
> OSLoader.exe on top of the openfirmware environment.
> 
> About one year ago I did some digging into this documented on Artyom's blog.
> http://tyom.blogspot.ro/2014/09/open-firmware-for-qemu-system-ppc-m-prep.html
> 
> If you want, you can write a minimal MZ-PE Loader in Forth and we'll take it 
> from there.
> 
> Note that I'm not in the qemu-ppc list, so this might not reach everyone. 
> Feel free to include anyone missing.

Thank you for the info. I'm cc'ing the QEMU ppc list so this information can be 
out there for others to use.