From: Martin Bochnig <mb1x@gmx.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: SPARC Solaris as guest operating system with qemu?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:02:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43181509.3060803@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F1A0BEF6B7B6054FB6E3B7FFA00@phx.gbl>
Blue Swirl wrote:
>> why isn't it possible to use some Sun-provided flash PROM-Update
>> binary for SS5 or so?
>
>
> Now that would be interesting. Running it could reveal some bugs in
> Qemu's HW implementation and especially where we have made some bogus
> shortcuts. For example, the boot sequence is not what a real Prom
> expects, execution starts from 0xffd00000 instead of zero (reset
> vector). I guess in the real HW, after reset the prom occupies all of
> the address space, and one of the first things it does is to enable
> RAM. Or prom lives near zero forever and RAM banks are higher.
To anyone who didn't already find it by himself:
http://www.sunshack.org/data/bootroms.html
(includes *SS 10* *sun-4m* *2.25* *Final* version released by Sun not
EOL'd yet adds *>= 150 Mhz* Hypersparc support
Contributed by brian@tash.net )
<mailto:brian@tash.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-02 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 15:41 [Qemu-devel] Q: SPARC Solaris as guest operating system with qemu? Blue Swirl
2005-09-01 16:21 ` Martin Bochnig
2005-09-01 19:11 ` Blue Swirl
2005-09-02 9:02 ` Martin Bochnig [this message]
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2005-09-01 12:14 Nardmann, Heiko
2005-09-01 13:45 ` Martin Bochnig
2005-09-01 16:13 ` Martin Bochnig
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