From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAruV-0000Ye-JS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:27:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EAruT-0000Xz-RX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:27:30 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAruT-0000XD-Gu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:27:29 -0400 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EArsZ-0003SS-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:25:31 -0400 Message-ID: <43172A89.4050207@gmx.com> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:21:29 +0200 From: Martin Bochnig MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Q: SPARC Solaris as guest operating system with qemu? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: mb1x@gmx.com, 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 Hi, > If bugs in V9 emulation were fixed, there could be some chances of > booting recent Sparc64 kernels. Also a working prom with real > OpenFirmware support is needed and that does not exist yet. > why isn't it possible to use some Sun-provided flash PROM-Update binary for SS5 or so? > It's much harder to know what are the problems when working with closed source. Ok, OBP sources are closed, but isn't OpenSolaris.org of any help? (I know, no support for any old 32bit platforms anymore, however.)