[Qemu-devel] SPARC docs

[Qemu-devel] SPARC docs

[Jose Renau]

  Hi,

  Yesterday, SUN released the code for OpenSparc 
(http://opensparc.sunsource.net/)

  Part of the release includes their full system simulator (SAM) and
proms. The proms are only included in binary form, but SAM can be 
recompiled. I hope
that this information is useful to solve/enhance the problems that we 
have with sparc64.

  The SAM simulator and the documentation is mostly for sun4v. Since 
Linux already boots
on sun4v, maybe adding support for SPARC/sun4v to qemu is easier than 
sparcV9/sun4u.

  Seems like Linus is going to add the Niagara patch on 2.6.17. 
Meanwhile, we can obtain
information from the Dave Miller branch:

git clone 
rsync://rsync.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6.git 
linux-2.6
http://vger.kernel.org/%7Edavem/cgi-bin/blog.cgi



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