Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1260555] [NEW] qemu-system-sparc UI doesn't work with Cocoa and Sun ROM

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 13 December 2013 01:04, Peter Bartoli <peter@bartoli.org> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
>
> The 32-bit SPARC emulator's TCX emulation seems to work with
> OpenBIOS, but doesn't work with a SparcStation ROM on Cocoa

This is actually two separate issues.

(1) This SS-5 ROM doesn't boot on QEMU. You can see this if
you try it on a Linux host : the display stays black.

(2) The Cocoa UI frontend doesn't black the screen on startup
(or on resize) the way the SDL frontend does, so if the guest
hasn't tried to display anything to the screen post-resize you
get the old garbage of the window decoration displayed.

We should probably fix (2), though it's only a cosmetic issue
and you won't even see it if you have a functioning guest.
I expect you care more about (1) and you'll do better with a
bug report that's clear that it's a generic SPARC guest issue.

thanks
-- PMM