Andreas Färber wrote:
... is the message I get from QEMU's official ppc OpenBIOS blob. sparc and sparc64 blobs work better.
Probably the ppc blob just needs updating. My cross-compilation is still running to confirm whether HEAD works better.
Yes. This was fixed in r734. Note there is still an issue whereby direct boot under PPC seems to have a problem with the console - it appears to hang, but in fact just the console I/O is blocked. I've spent several hours on this, but have yet to find the cause.
If you can extract the CHRP boot command, then invoking "load" on the correct path and then typing "go" still works fine.
Some notes: binutils 2.20.1 and 2.20 do not compile on Mac OS X v10.6. They error about lots of _("...") format strings that Ubuntu (gcc 4.4.1) just warns about. OSX default gcc is 4.2.1; CC=gcc-4.0 leads to /usr/lib/iconv.la not found during linking instead.
Thanks for the heads-up, although you're probably asking the wrong people ;)
ATB,
Mark.