Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Natalia Portillo]

You are wrong my friend.

ARDI Inc opensourced the Executor source code that emulates a System 6  
Mac OS without using a real ROM.

This can be taken as a start.

Other approach can be creating a emulator capable to run the real  
copyrighted ROM before making an opensource substitute or asking Apple  
for releasing it in public domain (as Amstrad did with the Spectrum  
and CPC ROMs).

Also emulating a nubus-less or 68000 Macintosh does not require  
emulating 68030, or nubus at all.

Mac OS is a highly ROM-dependent system as in the device drivers for  
each machine resided at first in the ROM (floppy, hard disk, video).
At the same time it is the most documented one as up to Macintosh II  
the 100% of the Toolbox APIs are documented in Inside Macintosh books  
(which can be obtained second hand in eBay and Amazon, as well as in  
HTML in Apple's webpage)

El 01/10/2009, a las 09:03, Laurent Vivier escribió:

> > for target-i386 and target-x86_64:
> >
> > o EFI firmware emulation (as a machine or command line option)
> > o OS/2 1.x support
> >
> > for target-m68k
> >
> > o Macintosh support at least to boot an Apple Toolbox (the firmware)
>
> To have a running linux-user-m68k should be a more reasonable target.
> Then we can think to run a linux kernel but we have to emulate a  
> 68030 or 68040, a nubus bus, nubus cards and Apple video cards.
>
> There is no opensource version of the Apple ROM and it is copyrighted.
>
> Regards,
> Laurent
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