Veneer.exe: Difference between revisions

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VENEER.EXE is a COFF executable used to start the boot sequence for Windows NT on PowerPC.

VENEER.EXE is an ARC firmware implementation that runs on an existing Open Firmware environment.^[1]

It treats IDE devices as SCSI devices.^[2]
It only recognizes 601, 603, 603e, 604, and 604e CPUs.^[3]
It appears to be present in the Windows NT source tree. Version 3.0 has strings referring to files in D:\nt\private\ntos\boot\veneer\, and Version 3.03 has S:\BUILDS\NT400\1345.960918\SRC\DAYTONA\MOT\VENEER\.

Open Firmware ARC Interface Version 3.03 (Sep 19 1996 - 02:29:26), 128512 bytes^[4]
Open Firmware ARC Interface Version 3.0 (Jul 12 1996 - 18:46:28), 161792 bytes^[5]^[6]

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 * It treats IDE devices as SCSI devices.<ref>https://github.com/openbios/openfirmware/blob/d5cc657ce81c0f7d1857b4687766b64d75a4145d/ofw/gui/findos.fth#L37</ref>
 * It only recognizes 601, 603, 603e, 604, and 604e CPUs.<ref>https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2017-07/msg00581.html</ref>
+* It appears to be present in the Windows NT source tree. Version 3.0 has strings referring to files in <code>D:\nt\private\ntos\boot\veneer\</code>, and Version 3.03 has <code>S:\BUILDS\NT400\1345.960918\SRC\DAYTONA\MOT\VENEER\</code>.
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