Re: [Qemu-devel] SPARC64 support on FreeBSD, has it improved as of yet?

[Super Bisquit]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Super Bisquit <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Super Bisquit <address@hidden>
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>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 1:10 AM, Bob Breuer <address@hidden> wrote:
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>>> Super Bisquit wrote:
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>>> ...
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>>> > It builds, doesn't run. More like it runs and hangs.
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>>> > $ qemu-system-sparc -cpu LEON3 -hda test.img -cdrom
>>> > Downloads/debian-6.0.2.1-sparc-businesscard.iso -m 256 -boot d
>>> >
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>>> That command line won't work.  OpenBIOS doesn't support LEON, and the
>>> last version of Debian for sparc32 was 4.0.
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>>> Try instead: "qemu-system-sparc -cdrom debian-40r9-sparc-netinst.iso
>>> -boot d"
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>>> You can get a cd image from
>>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/4.0_r9/sparc/iso-cd/ but the
>>> installer may not be able to load packages from the internet because the
>>> packages have been moved to archive.debian.org.
>>>
>>> Bob
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>> No response either from sparc32 or powerpc.  I386 also didn't work.
>> What gdb commands should be ran on the core and what qemu monitor commands
>> should I run?
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> Here. When someone else on the list has FreeBSD installed to a
> SPARC64/UltraSPARC device and has installed qemu to it, then it will be easy
> to see what I am referring to constantly.

More Sparc (or BSD) hackers are very much welcome.

Is there a way of verbose logging qemu while it runs? Maybe comparing the FreeBSD output to the OpenBSD output will help.
Also, I can send you a list of the installed binaries, libraries, scripts, and config files. Qemu on qemu has worked for me. This means that anyone with a machine that has the CPU and memory to support a sparc64 guest could install FreeBSD as a virtual sparc64 client/vm.