Hello,I would like to start a PPC (PowerPC) fork of PearPC

[phaseon]

Hello my name is Luis Roel,i haven't been on these forums for a while now.I would like to announce that i have successfully compiled two versions of PearPC 0.4 in OS X and Linux on an iMac G5 running OS X 10.4.9 and Ubuntu 7.05.Ive also managed to run OS X 10.4 with the Apple's X11.Which leads me to think,could PearPC not be a better and simpler virtualizer for the PPC platform on the PPC platform?.I did not have to modify the source code at all and i plan to release PearPC for PPC (which i have Dubbed PPC-O-PPC or PearPC-On-PPC).Included i have links to two version,one which has 64 bit support and vectorization support (better known as Velocity Engine or Altivec) and one which is the standard 32bit binary.

Just cd into the directory where you unzipped it then simply

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sudo make install

To Install it,then to run it cd into where it should have installed

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cd /user/local/bin

then to run it

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./ppc "insert the name of your config file here without quotations"

It should install into /usr/local.
As per the GPL all source code is included.
I would suggest running both in Mac OS X 10.4.9 and an installation of Apple's X11.app. remember you must execute the program in Xterm (X11 terminal) for it to work,otherwise it will give you a "cannot open Display 0:0" error.
I will have the Linux binaries up shortly.It would be really nice if i could have more developers helping me into creating an official fork of PearPC i myself (as an OS X user) find this very useful,not only for virtualizing OS X but to virtualize PPC Linux distributions as well.

Here are the links:
http://rapidshare.com/files/31329568/pe ... _.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/31331381/pe ... _.zip.html

Thank you for your interest and time,
Luis Roel

[phaseon]

it has come to my attention that there is a fatal error with CUDA in this build.If someone could help me fix it id be glad to recompile and put up new binaries.

[yizzel]

Hey this is a great idea. Seeing that Mac-on-Mac has been abandoned, PearPC-On-PPC sounds like a good successor. I'd be very interested in trying it out but I have to retrieve my G3 iBook from my Nephew first.

Btw I couldn't download from rapidshare...

[phaseon]

Hello Yizzel thank you for your interest,if youd like id be glad to upload it somewhere else,or send it to you email account.Is there any way you can run 10.4 on that G3?

[phaseon]

I fixed the rapidshare links they should now function normally

[phaseon]

The first order of business is to fix this CUDA error (im assuming it handles the I/O).It seems when i try to run Ubuntu on it,it will not boot and in the console logs it says:

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 [IO/CUDA] <Warning> Event processing timed out.Event dropped.

It does try to boot and at least pearpc does run on OS X albeit without being able to boot linux.

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j152/ ... ubuntu.jpg

[yizzel]

Cool, rapidshare link is working now. Until I get my iBook back I won't be able to test it tho...
Yeah my iBook runs 10.4.8. Btw, I compiled my own ppc build of PearPC last October and posted on here http://www.pearpc.net/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5035 and the binary is here http://rapidshare.com/files/31538944/Pe ... d.dmg.html

To turn PearPC into a real virtualizer we have to make it use the native processor rather than emulating it, like the ppc version of SheepShaver...

[phaseon]

Yes but how do we do that? hmm so its not virtualizing the CPU its emulating it? I think the most important thing would be to get more people involved! so we have to find a way to spread the news as this forum has slowed down a bit =/ but hey thank you for the CUDA fix i will patch the file,recompile PearPC and then put up updated binaries

BTW for other that would like ot know the CUDA fix is (Much thanks to Yizzel):

From the pearpc-04 source, checkout cuda.cc in src/io/cuda and uncomment

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/* gCUDA.left = 0;
gCUDA.rA = TREQ;
gCUDA.rACR = 0;
lockuphack = 0;
IO_CUDA_WARN(...

[phaseon]

In any case we have a lot of work ahead of us,but i know that we will be able to accomplish our goal of turning PearPC into a PPC virtualizer.

[phaseon]

Also is there any way we can integrate VirtualBox code?