Re: [Qemu-devel] atapi on ppc issue (was Re: qemu-system-ppc broken ?)

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 16 nov. 08 à 20:32, Blue Swirl a écrit :

> On 11/11/08, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 21:01 +0100, Andreas Färber a écrit :
> >
> > > Am 09.11.2008 um 23:07 schrieb François Revol:
> > >
> > > > > > > Though I still can't seem to get OpenHackware to read the CD:
> > > > > > > ERROR: ATAPI TEST_UNIT_READY : status 50 != 0x40
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I suppose OpenHackware only compares instead of checking the  
> > > > > > ready
> > > > > > bit...
> > > >
> > > > The attached patch makes OpenHackware happy again.
> > > > At least qemu-system-ppc can now start debian iso, and mine as well
> > > [...]
> > > > OpenHackware should be fixed instead, but it seems the binary in  
> > > > svn
> > > > has been updated after the last sources I found
> > > [...]
> > > > Seems the last update was already about ATAPI...
> > > > Anyone has the latest source used ?
> > > > I could at least fix it to check for bits on errors...
> > >
> > > Rene Rebe recently posted some diff against qemu's OHW diff, but it
> > > appeared to be whitespace-damaged.
> > >
> > > > Of course it'd be much better to switch to a real OF instead...
> > > > but I don't have the time for that, couldn't find usable OpenBIOS
> > > > images,
> > >
> > > I once tried to get OpenBIOS working but failed, Laurent appeared to
> > > get some further - any update on that?
> >
> >
> > No, I stopped working on this because I had no time.
> >
> > In fact, if I remember correctly, OpenHW initializes PCI devices  
> > whereas
> > OpenBIOS doesn't, I've started working on this but it is too much  
> > work
> > form me. I had a working OpenBIOS, able to start a kernel (at some
> > time), but stopping during boot.
> >
> > If someone is interested (perhaps) I can find my patches and send  
> > them
> > (privately).
>
> I would be interested. I finally created a PowerPC cross compiler and
> I'd like to test OpenBIOS for PPC.

Yes, Andreas had the same request.
For the moment I'm trying to re-create a cross-compiler to test and  
sort my patches.

Regards,
Laurent

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