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A more pointed question then: from whence do I add openbios-ppc?

wxl

On 02/12/2012 04:18 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> You have to add on the extra bits for it to be able emulate.
>
> Phill.
>
> On 13 February 2012 00:14, ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     after installing every related package known to man qemu gives me
>     the following cpu options:
>
>     $ qemu -cpu ?
>     x86           [n270]
>     x86         [athlon]
>     x86       [pentium3]
>     x86       [pentium2]
>     x86        [pentium]
>     x86            [486]
>     x86        [coreduo]
>     x86          [kvm32]
>     x86         [qemu32]
>     x86          [kvm64]
>     x86       [core2duo]
>     x86         [phenom]
>     x86         [qemu64]
>     x86           [host]
>
>     which seems inconsistent with idea that it can handle ppc (which
>     i'd like to figure out to allow others without ppc machines to do
>     some testing).
>
>     i've managed to figure out there is qemu-system-ppc (part of the
>     qemu-system package):
>
>     $ qemu-system-ppc -cpu ? | grep G4
>     PowerPC G4               PVR 000c0209
>
>     (that is one of *398* options!) but it seems to require
>     openbios-ppc which seems to exist only as a source package on
>     ubuntu. i could always build it but i'd like to make this as easy
>     as possible for people. any ideas?
>
>     btw i'm not yet running this up the qemu flagpole because this
>     really is more of a question of the particular ubutnu implementation.
>
>     thx
>     wxl
>
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