[OpenBIOS] Mac OS X panic - qemu fix

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 29/01/13 17:46, Programmingkid wrote:

> On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:25 AM, Amadeusz Sławiński wrote:
>
>> Hey, you may want to try this patch against qemu
>> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2013-01/msg00392.html
>> it fixes, some of panics I have seen when trying to boot darwin/OS X
>>
>> On normal (not mac99) qemu machine, I was able to get to "Waiting for
>> root device" on darwinppc, OS X 10.2, OS X 10.4

Nice work Amadeusz! Is this using unpatched OpenBIOS SVN trunk? How far 
does it get with -M mac99?

> I also see waiting for root device on Mac OS 10.2. Mac OS 10.0 has a kernel panic. Excellent job. This patch is a step in the right direction.
>
> Too bad this patch comes a day after QEMU 1.3.1 is released. Hopefully it will be included in the next release.
>
> Does anyone know what is wrong with the Mac99 target? I think it has the potential of being a better target than an emulated Beige G3.

Andreas mentioned in an earlier post when trying to boot FreeBSD that 
the "interrupt-parent" property wasn't being populated for the via-cuda 
and ata-1/2/3 devices which may be a starting point?

http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2013-January/007348.html


HTH,

Mark.