Surely something still wrong because it breaks -M g3beige :(
but at least
./qemu-system-ppc64 -accel tcg,thread=multi -smp 2 -M mac99,via=pmu -cpu g4 -bios ~/obj-ppc/openbios-qemu.elf -display sdl -hda ~/QEMU/osx-tiger_10.4.11_installed-compressed.qcow
starts fine and uses two processors with corresponding qemu patch
Originally developed/posted at
https://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2025-03/msg00020.html