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+PowerMac family boards (``g3beige``, ``mac99``)
+==================================================================
+
+Use the executable ``qemu-system-ppc`` to simulate a complete PowerMac
+PowerPC system.
+
+- ``g3beige`` Heathrow based PowerMAC
+- ``mac99`` Mac99 based PowerMAC
+
+Supported devices
+-----------------
+
+QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
+
+ * UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
+ * PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
+ * 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
+ * NE2000 PCI adapters
+ * Non Volatile RAM
+ * VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
+
+
+Missing devices
+---------------
+
+ * To be identified
+
+Firmware
+--------
+
+Since version 0.9.1, QEMU uses OpenBIOS https://www.openbios.org/ for
+the g3beige and mac99 PowerMac and the 40p machines. OpenBIOS is a free
+(GPL v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal is to implement a
+100% IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware) compliant firmware.