[OpenBIOS] QEMU old Mac work

Programmingkid programmingkidx at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 17:01:34 CEST 2016


On Aug 10, 2016, at 6:56 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 20:54 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Wed, 2016-08-10 at 11:26 +0200, Howard Spoelstra wrote:
>>> 
>>> I notice the problem in Puma (10.1) It seems there is some timer
>>> error?, as e.g., the time remaining for installation fluctuates like
>>> crazy (1600 hrs to go), and the beachball spins like mad. At boot
>>> there is a too rapid succession of “still waiting for boot device” .
>>> Just guessing, but might a timing issue also explain the slowness of
>>> Leopard?
>> 
>> Possible. I'm not really sure, I haven't had too much of a chance to
>> investigate but it's quite possible that there's a problem with time
>> base calibration.
>> 
>> Though the VIA part of the PMU is identical to the CUDA part (unless I
>> missed something up ...)
> 
> Regarding Leopard, I think that it's just slow :-) I installed it on my
> old Mini G5 and it's definitely much slower than Tiger accross the board.

What is a Mini G5?


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