[OpenBIOS] [PATCHv2 6/6] ppc: move copyright property hooks from adler32 word

Howard Spoelstra hsp.cat7 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 13:28:12 CET 2016


> On 14 Feb 2016, at 12:22, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 13/02/16 22:53, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 04:11:02PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>> Instead insert the copyright property if we detect the /rom/macos device
>>> generated by the MacOS boot loader just before we call the client with
>>> go and remove it before control is returned back to the interpreter.
>> 
>> Does this work for "OldWorld" systems (do we support those at all)?
> 
> The /rom/macos node is present in the MacOS 8.5 bootloader which I
> believe is one of the earliest versions QEMU can support. Sadly I don't
> have the ability to actually test this though :(


Openbios with this patch can boot 8.5 with no copyright warning, but complains about missing rtas. It never displays graphics.
I seem to remember Alyssa mentioning that everything below 9.x do not use the framebuffer and hence cannot display graphics.


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