From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo0iY-0007hu-UZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:17:14 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo0iX-0007hc-Hz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:17:14 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fo0iX-0007hZ-Cz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:17:13 -0400 Received: from [65.74.133.6] (helo=mail.codesourcery.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fo0qA-00039A-Ay for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:25:06 -0400 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Switch to OpenBIOS for Sparc32/64? Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 17:17:09 +0100 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606071717.10210.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wednesday 07 June 2006 16:56, Blue Swirl wrote: > I'd like to replace Proll with OpenBIOS as the Qemu/Sparc32 boot prom and > then develop a Sparc64 port that would finally make the Sparc64 system > emulator usable. >... > What do you think, is the switch okay, and if so, when can this happen? Sounds like a good idea to me, and the sooner the better. Even if we find some things that work with proll but not openbios I guess there's a good chance of getting openbios fixed. Paul