[OpenBIOS] [RFC] Make BootX from Mac OS X 10.4 work

[Laurent Vivier]

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>On 10.08.2009, at 00:51, Laurent Vivier wrote:
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>> Le jeudi 30 juillet 2009 à 18:00 +0200, Alexander Graf a écrit :
>>> Using this patch stacked on Steven Noonan's I was able to make  
>>> BootX from
>>> Mac OS X 10.4 load XNU successfully in qemu-system-ppc.
>>
>> Hi,
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>> I'd like to play with that.
>>
>> Which patches to apply before ?
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>I took those rebased on current git:
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>http://github.com/tycho/openbios/tree/macosx-boot
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>> How to boot ?
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>The normal way. Just use -boot d. So far only the 10.4 CD did boot IIRC.
>

OK, thank you.

I'll try to integrate some of these patches (the trivial ones) into the openbios main repository.

(but I really don't understand why commit 4722c8a01d186a08183de49759dc8b7b74cf41c9 is needed, if someone can explain...).

Laurent
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