Hello PPC PReP community and digital archaeologists, I'm glad to announce the result of some weekends of work: a new firmware which is not just open, but is also powerful (it runs on Power CPUs), free (the individual files are licensed under MIT and BSD licenses) and of course legendary - it's based on the original PReP Open Firmware from Mitch Bradley's FirmWorks company:
http://tyom.blogspot.de/2014/09/open-firmware-for-qemu-system-ppc-m-prep.html Some ideas for improvement: - although this version of OFW does support QEMU's -vga std and -vga cirrus adapters, I think switching the default adapter to cirrus would make sense: it is quite likely that old guests would be more happy with Cirrus (at least, NetBSD 4.0 is) - maybe it would also make sense to move some PCI peripherials instead of ISA. Or did a PPC machine with an isa ide and an isa network card really exist? Feedback is appreciated. In particular it would be nice to know if there are guests which can boot under OHW, but not under OFW. Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
