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


From: Artyom Tarasenko
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 19:14:51 +0100

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28/12/13 17:30, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>>> Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS -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).
>>
>>
>> Point taken. Added lists of Solaris kernels known to boot and not to
>> boot with OpenBIOS.
>> Feel free to submit yours if it's not in the lists yet. ;-)
>
>
> Hi Artyom,
>
> Thanks for this - it looks great! Some minor things I've noticed:
>
> 1) In the OpenBIOS section, the 2 SunOS 5.9 releases are listed together on
> the same line (missing line break?)
>
> 2) You don't need to use -prom-env 'auto-boot?=false' when booting from a
> cdrom with OpenBIOS. Just use '-boot d' to make sure that QEMU tells
> OpenBIOS that it wants to boot from cdrom or '-boot c' to boot from a disk
> image using the FW_CFG interface.
>
> (Perhaps the bug here is that if no boot device is explicitly specified then
> QEMU should try and set a sensible default based upon the current device
> tree? But adding an explicit '-boot x' to the QEMU command line should
> always work, regardless of how the boot ordering code changes in future)
>
> Also you can add my Solaris 8 test image to your OpenBIOS compatibility list
> which displays as "SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic_108528-09 32-bit" on
> boot (or is the -29 suffix a typing error?)

Hi Mark,

Done. Thanks for the feedback!

Artyom


-- 
Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

linux/sparc and solaris/sparc under qemu blog:
http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu



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