Re: Missing dimm-info properties in openbios ?

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, Josh Juran wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2025, at 10:59 AM, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> > > So far  I found that other ROMs works with patched qemu, too,  and
> > > curiously OF 2.0.1f allow me to dev into ide0/ide/ide1/ata-int but I
> > > still can't boot anything or list ISO9660 content on attached cdrom
> > > image ... But OF 2.4 does not allow me to dev into ide devices!
> >
> > Is there anybody with a real beige G3 Mac
>
> I have an OldWorld G3 tower, although it’s not really beige, but light grey. ;-)

It should do (irrespective of discoloration due to age or different 
opinion about its color) as long as it's the same model which is usually 
referred to as a beige G3:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Macintosh_G3#Beige_2

What OpenFirmware version does it print and what is the .properties output 
of the / node?

The above link has come info:

"ROMEarly G3s with Revision A ROMs do not support slave devices on their 
IDE controllers, limiting them to one device per bus (normally one optical 
drive and one hard disk). Additionally, they came with onboard ATI Rage 
II+ video. G3s with Revision B ROMs support slave devices on their IDE 
controllers, and had the onboard video upgraded to ATI Rage Pro. G3s with 
Revision C ROMs also support slave devices on their IDE controllers, but 
the most significant technical differences are the newer Open Firmware 
version than the previous two models (2.4 vs 2.0f1) and another onboard 
video upgrade, this time to ATI Rage Pro Turbo."

This reminds me that on QEMU the default ide-cd appears on ide1 as unit=0 
master but there's some issue that a non-working slave device always 
appears which may confuse the ROM. This was once discussed on the QEMU 
list when I've found that maybe MorphOS logs some errors but I don't 
remember when was that but a long time ago. But I think it's still not 
fixed so it may be related to this if it works on real machine but not on 
QEMU.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan