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

[Blue Swirl]

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Super Bisquit <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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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>> >>> > It builds, doesn't run. More like it runs and hangs.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > $ qemu-system-sparc -cpu LEON3 -hda test.img -cdrom
>> >>> > Downloads/debian-6.0.2.1-sparc-businesscard.iso -m 256 -boot d
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>> 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"
>> >>>
>> >>> 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.
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>> >>> 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.
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>> More Sparc (or BSD) hackers are very much welcome.
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> Is there a way of verbose logging qemu while it runs? Maybe comparing the
> FreeBSD output to the OpenBSD output will help.

-d in_asm,op,out_asm. For user emulator, -strace may also be useful
though the output may be buggy.

Comparing should work, but perhaps it's easier if you compared
FreeBSD/i386 host output to FreeBSD/Sparc64 output for the same
binaries.

> 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.

Unfortunately Sparc64 guest support is not complete enough for
installation of any OS.