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

Igor Kovalenko igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com
Fri Jul 31 08:37:57 CEST 2009


On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Alexander Graf<agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>
> On 31.07.2009, at 08:22, Igor Kovalenko wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Alexander Graf<agraf at suse.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, most of this patch is nothing but a mere hack to find out
>>> what we really need to get this working.
>>>
>>> Also I didn't manage to get anything but 10.4 running. Other versions
>>> broke
>>> in the partition table interpretation.
>>>
>>> I would not feel good taking the patch as is, because it would be better
>>> to
>>> implement the correct Forth magic to make the real callbacks work. Here
>>> is
>>> what I found to be broken:
>>>
>>>  - unselect-dev is missing
>>>  - local variables don't work ({ ... })
>>>  - I ran into an endless loop, getting isi and dsi faults on the same 2
>>>   addresses all the time
>>>
>>> Also, Qemu's only usable Desktop PPC target is a G3 Beige which is only
>>> supported up to 10.2.8 IIRC. So even getting the bootloader running for
>>> 10.4 didn't exactly buy me much.
>>>
>>
>> While working on sparc64 ofmem patch I used ppc/qemu ofmem
>> implementation as reference. What I noticed is there are several
>> corner cases not handled by range lists code; I fixed several ones
>> for sparc64.
>
> It looked like the real problem was the low level hash entry mechanism,
> which is the one I changed.
>
>> Hope we can work out good common ofmem base soon.
>
> That would still be great. In fact, hearing that all other targets broke
> anyways, it might make sense to take the qemu/ directory and just make it
> the default for all of ppc.

If you mean building for ppc, it is already the default (only ppc/qemu
is enabled in configuration examples.)

The build problem for others was introduced in commit
r362 "Really create a tree for PCI devices (Laurent Vivier)"
I cannot figure out what exactly caused a problem.

> From there on going towards merging different architectures as well sounds
> like a really good idea.

I like reducing code duplication :)

-- 
Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko



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