PowerPC emulation status.
The goal of this file is to provide a reference status to avoid regressions.

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PowerPC core emulation status

PowerPC CPU known to work (ie booting at least Linux 2.4):
* main stream PowerPC cores
- PowerPC 603 & derivatives
- PowerPC 604 & derivatives
- PowerPC 740 & derivatives
- PowerPC 750 & derivatives

PowerPC that should work but are not supported by standard Linux kernel
(then remain mostly untested)
- PowerPC 745
- PowerPC 755

Work in progress:
* embedded PowerPC cores
- PowerPC 405
- BookE PowerPC
- e500 core (Freescale PowerQUICC)
* main stream PowerPC cores
- PowerPC 601
- PowerPC 602

TODO:
* embedded PowerPC cores
- PowerPC 401
- PowerPC 403
- PowerPC 440
- PowerPC 460
* main stream PowerPC cores
- PowerPC 7400 (aka G4)
- PowerPC 7410
- PowerPC 7450
- PowerPC 7455
- PowerPC 7457
- PowerPC 7457A
* original POWER
- POWER
- POWER2
* 64 bits PowerPC cores
- PowerPC 620
- PowerPC 630 (aka POWER3)
- PowerPC 631 (aka POWER3+)
- POWER4
- POWER4+
- POWER5
- POWER5+
- PowerPC 970
* RS64 series
- RS64
- RS64-II
- RS64-III
- RS64-IV

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PowerPC microcontrollers emulation status

TODO:
- PowerPC 40x microcontrollers emulation
- PowerQUICC microcontrollers emulation

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PowerPC based platforms emulation status

* PREP platform (RS/6000 7043...) - TO BE CHECKED (broken)
- Gentoo Linux live CDROM 1.4
- Debian Linux 3.0
- Mandrake Linux 9

* heathrow PowerMac platform (beige PowerMac) - TO BE CHECKED (broken)
- Gentoo Linux live CDROM 1.4
- Debian Linux 3.0
- Mandrake Linux 9

* mac99 platform (white and blue PowerMac, ...)
- Gentoo Linux live CDROM 1.4 - boots, compiles linux kernel
- Debian Linux woody - boots from CDROM and HDD
- Mandrake Linux 9 - boots from CDROM, freezes during install

TODO:
- MCA based RS/6000 emulation
- CHRP emulation (not PowerMac)
- PPAR emulation
- misc PowerPC reference boards emulation

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(to be completed)