[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] More complete PowerPC OpenFirmware emulation -- adding bus-frequency
Alexander von Gluck
kallisti5 at unixzen.com
Tue Aug 9 15:21:44 CEST 2011
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:12:20 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 08/08/11 16:07, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
>
>> Below is a quick patch to introduce the bus-frequency field for each
>> CPU.
>>
>> This exists on every Apple OpenFirmware i've seen and is expected on
>> Haiku OS.
>>
>>
>> The change to config/scripts/switch-arch isn't required but lets
>> you compile openbios using Haiku's PowerPC cross-compiler.
>>
>>
>> Also included is a extra tracing line for troubleshooting MMU
>> issues.
>
> This all looks sensible to me, however I'd like to leave this to
> either Alex or Andreas to do the final commit as they the current PPC
> maintainers.
>
> BTW as a matter of interest, with this patch does Haiku now boot
> under QEMU or do you need additional patches for QEMU?
Nah, Haiku still gets stuck setting up the mmu under qemu (thus that
extra trace I added in around OpenBIOS's mmu setup.)
I'll continue to poke at it, but i'm not expecting any huge
breakthroughs
anytime soon.
Thanks!
-- Alex
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