On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Laurent Vivier Laurent@lvivier.info wrote:
Le dimanche 19 avril 2009 à 00:50 -0700, Steven Noonan a écrit :
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Steven Noonan steven@uplinklabs.net wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 1:39 AM, Laurent Vivier Laurent@lvivier.info wrote:
OpenBIOS is not able to boot MacOS X.
Well, that's a silly limitation. Is there a reason this isn't implemented? I see that the Mac-on-Linux OpenBIOS version has such support, so it seems strange that the QEMU version does not.
I don't know if anyone here is actually interested (this list seems -very- quiet), but...
Hi,
I've been hacking at OpenBIOS for a bit, and I got it to properly read Mac OS X discs (it kept failing because it would hit an Apple Partition Map header instead of an HFS+ filesystem header). I'm working on adding an XCOFF loader, too, so it should be able to boot Mac OS X soon.
You can copy it from OpenHackWare. I made some tests and it seems to have some memory conflicts between MacOS kernel and OpenBIOS.
Good Luck.
Two more pre-XCOFF loader commits up: http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/e43daa3447b5ce4a2b05b2f32882e4989115... http://github.com/tycho/openbios/commit/7023b78a10f5632fd08d4749615efd3e73ab...
And I have something (uncommitted) that at least -loads- the CHRP-embedded XCOFF binaries now, but I am not sure what to do to execute the result. With ELF, it seems you can just use the call_elf() function. I don't know PowerPC assembler (nor the XCOFF format) well enough yet to know what would be necessary for a call_xcoff() function. Anyone want to help out with this?
- Steven