Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: SPARC Solaris as guest operating system with qemu?

[Martin Bochnig]

Blue Swirl wrote:

> > why isn't it possible to use some Sun-provided flash PROM-Update 
> > binary for SS5 or so?
>
>
> Now that would be interesting.  Running it could reveal some bugs in 
> Qemu's HW implementation and especially where we have made some bogus 
> shortcuts.  For example, the boot sequence is not what a real Prom 
> expects, execution starts from 0xffd00000 instead of zero (reset 
> vector).  I guess in the real HW, after reset the prom occupies all of 
> the address space, and one of the first things it does is to enable 
> RAM.  Or prom lives near zero forever and RAM banks are higher.



To anyone who didn't already find it by himself:

http://www.sunshack.org/data/bootroms.html

(includes *SS 10* *sun-4m* *2.25* *Final* version released by Sun not 
EOL'd yet adds *>= 150 Mhz* Hypersparc support
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