[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/4] ppc: introduce execution context

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 01/05/16 19:33, Programmingkid wrote:

> On May 1, 2016, at 6:22 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> 
>> This patch series is part of a much larger WIP series designed to remove various hacks
>> from the load/init-program/go words. However in order for the follow-on series to work,
>> all architectures must build an execution context similar to the IEEE1275 specification
>> description of saved-program-state.
>>
>> PPC is the only architecture which doesn't make use of contexts when entering/leaving the
>> Forth environment, so start by adding this functionality in order that it can be expanded
>> on further with later patches. While no functionality is changed by this patch, there should
>> be no regressions when attempting to boot existing client images.
> 
> I tried Debian Linux, Mac OS 10.4.0, Darwin 8 ppc, and Mac OS 9.2. All of them did not boot. Sorry. I am using QEMU 2.5.93.

Hmmm I see. My local build wasn't clean in that I still had debugging
enabled in Makefile.target which seems to be required for this to work.
Thanks for testing, will follow up separately.


ATB,

Mark.