Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

[Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>]

On 23/12/13 03:02, Peter Bartoli wrote:

Hi Peter,

> Very welcome!  Thanks for the awesome software.  It's allowed me to put my SparcServer 5 out to pasture as a demonstration machine.  Really, really hoping that it supports the tcx with OBP at some point soon ... that'd be very cool.
>
> I filed a separate bug report on that before realizing that it didn't
> work quite by design/limitation; please pardon my ignorance.

Thanks for the feedback. Actually it does boot in TCX mode with the 
FCode ROM attached to this bug report - well at least you can boot into 
OBP. If you're running Solaris, then the problem is that their version 
of X doesn't have a TCX driver and so boot hangs after "Starting 
OpenWindows". Other OS such as Linux do have a TCX driver and so work fine.

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.

Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS - 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.


HTH,

Mark.