Re: Qemu / KVM On Powermac G5 MP970

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 24/01/2023 08:14, Dan Whitehouse wrote:

> Mark,
> Thanks for your reply. So it looks like KVM works pretty well on the G4.
> Doing a bit of Macrumors forums archeology it seems as though: Linux debian 
> 4.19.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.28-2 (2019-03-15) ppc64 worked.
>
> Dan

I'd say that the basic functionality is there, however a few bugs have seemingly 
crept in since I'm fairly sure it used to be possible to boot Debian as a KVM-PR 
Linux guest a while ago.

I suspect fixing the bugs won't be too hard, however bisecting down the kernels and 
QEMU to find the regressions is the most important bit but it takes time to do.

Whilst I can't immediately offer the time to do it myself, I can certainly offer 
guidance from the QEMU side and investigate the issues once the relevant commits have 
been identified.


ATB,

Mark.