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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to


From: Mark Cave-Ayland
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:05:56 +0000
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On 23/12/13 03:02, Peter Bartoli wrote:

Hi Peter,

Very welcome!  Thanks for the awesome software.  It's allowed me to put my 
SparcServer 5 out to pasture as a demonstration machine.  Really, really hoping 
that it supports the tcx with OBP at some point soon ... that'd be very cool.

I filed a separate bug report on that before realizing that it didn't
work quite by design/limitation; please pardon my ignorance.

Thanks for the feedback. Actually it does boot in TCX mode with the FCode ROM attached to this bug report - well at least you can boot into OBP. If you're running Solaris, then the problem is that their version of X doesn't have a TCX driver and so boot hangs after "Starting OpenWindows". Other OS such as Linux do have a TCX driver and so work fine.

I currently have patches for a CG3 framebuffer pending that will enable you to boot Solaris into graphics mode, which I hope will be applied soon.

Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - OpenBIOS has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years now so you may find that you can get by without the proprietary Sun ROM (and avoid having to manually type a boot command into OBP every time you restart). Unfortunately the OpenBIOS binaries for 1.7 also have a bug that breaks booting from hard disks (CDROMs are fine), but the updated binaries should be merged into git in time for the next 1.7.x release.


HTH,

Mark.



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