Am 17.09.2010 um 19:43 schrieb Blue Swirl:
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Artyom Tarasenko atar4qemu@googlemail.com wrote:
2010/9/17 Andreas Färber andreas.faerber@web.de:
I don't spot anything particularly wrong in there, except that OHW no longer exists and its URLs are dead.
Actually the URL was already dead more than one year ago, when I checked it last. I could find virtually no information about this project. What was the story behind OHW? Did it have problems with the license? Was it developed on top of a proprietary firmware (the word "hackware" sort of suggests it)? Did it have any features OpenBIOS doesn't have?
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Here's one place I found with source: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openhackware/openhackware_0.4.1....
From my view that was the main problem. There was no public repository, just one or two source tarballs, and in QEMU there were binary blobs of which no updated source code was provided to improve/ debug what was going wrong (CD boot at the time).
Speaking of which, http://wiki.qemu.org/Download should probably provide a link to some source tarball as long as ppc_rom.bin is around.
Would anyone be interested in having OHW archived on repo.or.cz, as done for kqemu? I personally only have a v0.4.1 around though, like the above.
Andreas