[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/5] Mac OS 9 compatibility improvements

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Wed Aug 19 21:34:02 CET 2015


On 18/08/15 19:17, Cormac O'Brien wrote:

> This patchset significantly improves OpenBIOS's ability to boot OS 9, adding
> ESCC legacy ports, reworking ADB interaction with QEMU and fixing IDE
> controller interaction with the OS.
> 
> Note that the patch to interpreter.fs is a temporary measure pending a fix
> that Mark is writing, and that RTAS must be disabled for the OS to boot.

Just for the archives: I believe in the end that we didn't need to
change anything related to RTAS (and it's disabled by default for PPC)
so there is actually no change here.

> Signed-off-by: Cormac O'Brien <cormac at c-obrien.org>
> 
> Cormac O'Brien (5):
>   interpreter.fs: allow evaluate to split words on CR as well as LF
>   ppc: fix up power-mgt properties
>   ppc: add ESCC legacy support
>   ppc: fix CUDA ADB packet header format
>   ppc: fix up IDE device tree and control transfer
> 
>  arch/ppc/qemu/methods.c        |  2 +
>  drivers/cuda.c                 | 17 +++++++--
>  drivers/escc.c                 | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/escc.h                 |  2 +
>  drivers/ide.c                  | 33 ++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/pci.c                  |  6 +++
>  forth/bootstrap/interpreter.fs |  2 +-
>  7 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

All in all, a good submission. I reckon that we can get this into
committable shape without too much difficulty.


ATB,

Mark.




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