From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv0YJ-0000z8-Tw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:07:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv0YC-00012q-KE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:07:51 -0500 Received: from s16892447.onlinehome-server.info ([82.165.15.123]:48497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv0YC-00012N-Cy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 03:07:44 -0500 Message-ID: <52B7EEE4.7060907@ilande.co.uk> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:05:56 +0000 From: Mark Cave-Ayland MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20131218073811.7663.63219.malonedeb@soybean.canonical.com> <20131220174136.16144.64815.malone@wampee.canonical.com> <2F3A0166-4808-47C4-91E5-DE1CCFEAB250@bartoli.org> In-Reply-To: <2F3A0166-4808-47C4-91E5-DE1CCFEAB250@bartoli.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Bug 1262081 <1262081@bugs.launchpad.net> Cc: Peter Bartoli , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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 Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - OpenBIOS has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years now so you may find that you can get by without the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.