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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I started porting the OpenBIOS to the PPC qemu, and I was curious of the state of the PearPC portion of the OpenBIOS. I thought I check and ask if there is another branch or if someone was already working in this area or had it working.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I would be happy to collaborate and share some patches.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Nothing really works at this point, but it is further along then having nothing:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> =============================================================</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> OpenBIOS 1.0RC1 [Jun 15 2006 16:42]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> current nvram:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> nvram error detected, zapping pram</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> Initializing PCI devices...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> ide0: [io ports 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> drive0 [ATA disk]: QEMU HARDDISK</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> drive1 [ATAPI floppy]: QEMU CD-ROM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> Initializing ADB driver</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">>> Autobooting disabled - dropping into OpenFirmware</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">No cdrom found</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Output device /pci/pci6666,6666 not found.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">/pci/via-cuda/adb has no read method.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Output device screen not found.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Input device keyboard not found.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">0 ></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I get that on the serial port for PPC qemu, and now I have to work backwards to fix it up correctly. Serial input doesn't work quite right and that will probably be the first hurdle.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Any pointers to active or recent projects in this area would be appreciated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Jason.</FONT>
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