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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 14/02/16 12:28, Howard Spoelstra wrote:

>> 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.

Thanks for testing - sounds like it works fine. Missing the /rtas
package is a separate issue but if boot doesn't abort due to the missing
copyright property then we're good :)


ATB,

Mark.