Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 01/10] ppc: Fix rfi/rfid/hrfi/... emulation

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2016-06-20 at 08:15 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-06-19 at 19:21 +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > But, I could not boot  ./darwinppc-602.cdr with on a 970. That
> > might
> > be another issue.
> 
> Right, the issue is that the kernel in Darwin 6.0.2 doesn't support
> the
> 970 :-)
> 
> I think the first MacOS X to support 970 was some special build of
> 10.2.8 or something along those lines, which is slightly after Darwin
> 6.0.2 was released.
> 
> Now that being said, Darwin 8.0.1 is also not booting in 970 and that
> is possible a real issue, but I don't think it's realted to those
> patches since that happens with current upstream7
> 
> I can look into it later (they both boot fine with a 7400).

Ok so Darwin uses some of the HSPRG etc... that we don't emulate on the
970 so I suspect it never worked. I've added them but something else
breaks, I'll dig, I have the kernel source so it shouldn't be too hard
;-)

Cheers,
Ben.