[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] OpenBIOS release

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 20:09:34 CET 2009


On 3/1/09, François Revol <revol at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
>  >
>  > I think we are pretty much ready for the 1.0 release of OpenBIOS.
>  > I'll
>  > bump the version number, update the web pages and upload the image
>  > files also to Qemu within a few hours, unless there are objections.
>
>
> Does this one support -nographics ?

Yes.

>  Also, while I got a binary that makes the Haiku loader go a little
>  further, it's not booting yet, though I can't assert if it's OpenBIOS
>  or the loader.
>
>  AFAIK it actually used to boot long ago on Pegasos, so it should still
>  do more than currently.

This is what I get with Haiku:
0 > boot

checking for memory...
0: base = 0x00000000, size = 134217728
1: empty region
total physical memory = 128 MB
suggested page table size = 1048576
need new page table, size = 1048576!
new table at: 0x07d00000
MSR: 0x00003030
found 4 translations
found page table!
no mapping for the exception handlers!



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