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1PowerMac family boards (``g3beige``, ``mac99``)
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4Use the executable ``qemu-system-ppc`` to simulate a complete PowerMac
5PowerPC system.
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7- ``g3beige``              Heathrow based PowerMAC
8- ``mac99``                Mac99 based PowerMAC
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10Supported devices
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13QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
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15 *  UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
16 *  PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
17 *  2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
18 *  NE2000 PCI adapters
19 *  Non Volatile RAM
20 *  VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
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23Missing devices
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26 * To be identified
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28Firmware
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31Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS https://www.openbios.org/ for
32the g3beige and mac99 PowerMac and the 40p machines. OpenBIOS is a free
33(GPL v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a
34100% IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.
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