OS4 on Pear PC ????

[Piru]

This message was posted on Pegasos II G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.7.

*giggle*

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@bak006

Regarding Pearpc...I think that os4 don't run because ther isn't uboot.

So basically you're saying that OS4 has drivers for Mac hardware. That's new...










Seriously now, neither pearpc or qemu emulate AmigaOne HW, thus OS4 will not run on them unless if someone does one of the following:

a) Add Mac (or qemu reported device) hw drivers to OS4
or b) Adjust pearpc or qemu to emulate AmigaOne HW.

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@humppa

Oh really. Someone must have been busy:

The QEMU PC System emulator simulates the following peripherals:

-   i440FX host PCI bridge and PIIX3 PCI to ISA bridge
-   Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI VGA card or dummy VGA card with Bochs VESA
    extensions (hardware level, including all non standard modes).
-   PS/2 mouse and keyboard
-   2 PCI IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
-   Floppy disk
-   NE2000 PCI network adapters
-   Serial ports
-   Creative SoundBlaster 16 sound card
-   ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370 sound card
-   Adlib(OPL2) - Yamaha YM3812 compatible chip
-   PCI UHCI USB controller and a virtual USB hub.

What is the definition of "running" here?

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@humppa

QEMU supports various target platforms, not only x86 (that you listed).

Right, my mistake. The powerpc systems are:

* PREP (PowerPC processor)
* G3 BW PowerMac (PowerPC processor)
* Mac99 PowerMac (PowerPC processor, in progress)

Thus:

QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
- UniNorth PCI Bridge
- PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
- 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- NE2000 PCI adapters
- Non Volatile RAM
- VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
 
QEMU emulates the following PREP peripherals:
- PCI Bridge
- PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
- 2 IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- Floppy disk
- NE2000 network adapters
- Serial port
- PREP Non Volatile RAM
- PC compatible keyboard and mouse.

Yet, to fully be able to boot, drivers for these (either PowerMac or PREP) HW would be needed.

You could try to modify a Linux kernel in order to access physical hw devices.

I'm not sure what the point of the emulation would then be, though.