[OpenBIOS] OpenBIOS documentation

Programmingkid programmingkidx at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 15:09:16 CEST 2016


On Oct 17, 2016, at 3:05 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> On 17/10/16 02:37, Programmingkid wrote:
> 
>> I did your suggestion and OpenBIOS compiled without errors or warnings.
>> I tried testing the change with a USB keyboard. No characters displayed.
>> I then removed the changes and tried the USB keyboard again. No characters
>> displayed. It looks like USB keyboards do not work in OpenBIOS.
>> 
>> Here is the command-line I used:
>> qemu-system-ppc -M mac99 -device usb-kbd -bios openbios-qemu.elf.nostrip
> 
> Regression in QEMU?

I can't say for sure. This is my first time using the USB keyboard in OpenBIOS.

> Do USB keyboards work with your new OpenBIOS used
> with a vanilla 2.7 release?

It does not. Did USB keyboard ever work with OpenBIOS?

The OpenBIOS binary that comes with QEMU doesn't even work. My test was with this command-line:
qemu-system-ppc -usb -device usb-kbd


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