[OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv8 00/16] boot order specification

Andreas Färber andreas.faerber at web.de
Fri Dec 17 15:05:22 CET 2010


Am 15.12.2010 um 00:02 schrieb Alexander Graf:

> On 14.12.2010, at 21:31, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
>>
>>> The only working system emulation we have are Macs (G3 beige, G4,  
>>> G5),
>>> so we can't just ignore Apple.
>>> Alex even made me stick to their odd 0x41 rtas-version property. ;)
>>
>> Hah :-) Nothing ever used RTAS on these... afaik, it didn't even work
>> properly.
>
> Then let's not use rtas for the Mac machine, but rather go with  
> Andreas' new machine. Changing the value there to what real FW uses  
> on that machine is more than reasonable :)

The value is already conditional on is_apple(), so I don't think it  
needs changing.
I just mustn't forget to fix the old is_apple() {  return 1; }  
implementation for the new machines. :)

Andreas



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