[Qemu-devel] Re: Accessing the serial port from proll

["Blue Swirl" <blueswir1@hotmail.com>]

Hi,

I guess you are not using Qemu's -nographic option. The flag is passed on to 
Proll, which then initialises either serial port or frame buffer 
accordingly.

For example, the following code echoes serial port data back:

diff -ru proll-patch-16/qemu/main.c proll-patch-16b/qemu/main.c
--- proll-patch-16/qemu/main.c  2005-08-14 10:07:48.000000000 +0000
+++ proll-patch-16b/qemu/main.c 2005-11-20 08:50:57.000000000 +0000
@@ -79,6 +79,13 @@
        ram_size = ld_bypass(PHYS_JJ_EEPROM + 0x30);
        printk("%d MB total\n", ram_size/(1024*1024));

+       for (;;) {
+               int ch;
+
+               ch = vcon_zs_getch(&dp0);
+               vcon_zs_putch(&dp0, ch);
+       }
+
        bb.nbanks = 1;
        bb.bankv[0].start = 0;
        bb.bankv[0].length = ram_size;

I think serial loader would be nice addition, though there is already CD/HD 
(no FD) and network boot options. If you don't care about Sun OBP 
compatibility, I'd suggest reusing GDB remote debugging code.

Or are you trying to use Proll on Sparc64? In that case the serial port is 
not Zilog one, but PC-compatible (vcons_su).

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