From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41720) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvSuX-0006NF-4G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:24:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvSuP-00059C-R2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:24:41 -0500 Received: from s16892447.onlinehome-server.info ([82.165.15.123]:49059) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VvSuP-00058y-Js for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 24 Dec 2013 09:24:33 -0500 Message-ID: <52B998C2.1000407@ilande.co.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:22:58 +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> <52B7EEE4.7060907@ilande.co.uk> <21C66F55-5726-4579-B192-AEBC55FEE7D7@bartoli.org> In-Reply-To: <21C66F55-5726-4579-B192-AEBC55FEE7D7@bartoli.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: 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 21:00, Peter Bartoli wrote: >> 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. > > That is AWESOME news. Really, I'm hoping to just have a text-based > console like on my SS5 with the old familiar Sun logo and to start ..X? >> Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - 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. > > Again, great news. I'm running Solaris 2.5.1 ... any clue if OpenBIOS > might work for me? No idea - I don't have many Solaris images for testing at all, so just try it and see. Although you need to wait for the fixed binaries to hit the QEMU 1.7/master git repo to fix another outstanding SPARC boot bug. > If I may, do you know why qemu-system-sparc w/ OBP ignores the following > prom-env options? > > -prom-env 'boot-device=disk1' -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true' That's because the boot parameters are passed to the PROM via a QEMU custom FW interface (which OBP has no knowledge of) rather than by having QEMU emulate the NVRAM in exactly the same way as real hardware. ATB, Mark.