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Re: [Qemu-ppc] Windows NT 4.0 for PowerPC
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Programmingkid |
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Re: [Qemu-ppc] Windows NT 4.0 for PowerPC |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jul 2017 21:27:37 -0400 |
> On Jul 27, 2017, at 12:36 PM, Răzvan Corneliu C.R. VILT <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> Andrei Warkentin managed to get as far as booting veneer.exe but it crashes
> at the NT Kernel using his prephv build (https://github.com/andreiw/prephv/).
>
> OpenBIOS cannot load PE Images and I believe that even if PE loading was
> added to it, it wouldn't help since you also have some special requirements
> for little endian booting and some for the load-base.
>
> Veneer.exe is basically an emulator for the ARC Firmware needed by the NT
> OSLoader.exe on top of the openfirmware environment.
>
> About one year ago I did some digging into this documented on Artyom's blog.
> http://tyom.blogspot.ro/2014/09/open-firmware-for-qemu-system-ppc-m-prep.html
>
> If you want, you can write a minimal MZ-PE Loader in Forth and we'll take it
> from there.
>
> Note that I'm not in the qemu-ppc list, so this might not reach everyone.
> Feel free to include anyone missing.
Thank you for the info. I'm cc'ing the QEMU ppc list so this information can be
out there for others to use.