From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EB7ZF-0005WW-Hf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:10:37 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EB7Z6-0005Tp-Sg for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:10:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EB7Z6-0005LF-1k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:10:28 -0400 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EB7V4-0004pH-8F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Sep 2005 05:06:18 -0400 Message-ID: <43181509.3060803@gmx.com> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:02:01 +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=ISO-8859-1; 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 Blue Swirl wrote: >> why isn't it possible to use some Sun-provided flash PROM-Update >> binary for SS5 or so? > > > Now that would be interesting. Running it could reveal some bugs in > Qemu's HW implementation and especially where we have made some bogus > shortcuts. For example, the boot sequence is not what a real Prom > expects, execution starts from 0xffd00000 instead of zero (reset > vector). I guess in the real HW, after reset the prom occupies all of > the address space, and one of the first things it does is to enable > RAM. Or prom lives near zero forever and RAM banks are higher. To anyone who didn't already find it by himself: http://www.sunshack.org/data/bootroms.html (includes *SS 10* *sun-4m* *2.25* *Final* version released by Sun not EOL'd yet adds *>= 150 Mhz* Hypersparc support Contributed by brian@tash.net )