Re: [Qemu-ppc] Status of mac99?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 06/03/15 16:22, Programmingkid wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:18 PM, address@hidden
> <mailto:address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Should the mac99 machine be able to boot OS X 10.4 in its current
>> status in
>> the git repository? Searching the list archives it seems it was, at least
>> sometime in the past. And what about the mac99 with 970 (G5) CPU? Can it
>> boot 10.4?
>>
>> Is there some list stating what's already implemented and what's not?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ardi
> 
> The mac99 target has been known to be "broken" for a while. A lot of
> effort was put into making it better last year. Having just tried my Mac
> OS 10.4 boot cd in the mac99 target, it stopped booting and displayed
> the circle with the line thru it. In verbose mode, the message "still
> waiting for root device" is displayed for my Mac OS 10.2 boot cd. The G5
> emulation doesn't receive very much attention, so I wouldn't expect much
> from it. It will probably fail to boot Mac OS 10.4 also. 
> 
> I don't know of a to-do list for the mac99 target. The closest thing I
> have found is this post from Alexander Graf stating his findings with
> the emulator:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-06/msg05531.html

The only outstanding issue I know of is the CDROM, although I do have an
experimental patchset that fixes this. Unfortunately I don't have a copy
of OS X to test it with, so if anyone is willing to help out, please shout.


ATB,

Mark.