[Qemu-devel] Open Hack'Ware test image.

[J. Mayer]

A binary and svn snapshot of qemu PPC BIOS (version 0.4-pre1d) is now
available here:
<http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/OpenHackWare/>

The BIOS code have been reorganized. It also include new features
including a console with ADB/PC keyboard input.
It includes bugfixes, including a major HFS rework, from Thayne Harbaugh
& Matthew S. Wood.

With this release, most PowerMac boot CDROM seem recognized. All Linux
2.4 kernel based distributions should boot. A few 2.6 ones should also
boot OK. Please note that early 2.6 kernels frame-buffer drivers are
broken, so some distributions may boot without any output on the
console.
Debug is on the way to find other known issues with 2.6 kernels
(including IDE & ADB problems).
Most other OSes will start booting and then crash sooner or later
because of:
- lack of executable file format support (OpenBSD)
- buggy OF tree (NetBSD)
- other unknown/not clearly identified problems (Darwin, MacOS X 10.2 &
10.3, MacOS 9).
Debug is in progress to fix ISO9660 El-torito boot as well as some known
bugs in executable files loaders.

Note that PREP support has not been checked with this snapshot (but will
be before it'll become a release).

Please report any other bug, problem or success.

-- 
J. Mayer <address@hidden>
Never organized