Re: [Qemu-devel] SunOS Testing on latest SVN snapshot

["Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

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On 4/19/07, Jason Height <jason.height@gmail.com> wrote:
> Inspired by Blue Swirl's statement in an earlier email that SunOS testing
> can now commence against the latest SVN snapshot, i thought that i may
> finally be able to contribute.
>
> I have available:
>
> Solaris 1.0.1 (SunOS 4.1.4)
> Solaris 2.4
> Solaris 2.5
> Solaris 6.5 (SPARC)
> Solaris 7.0 (SPARC)
> Solaris 8.0 (SPARC)

Nice selection, thanks for testing!

> I think that all should run on a Sparstation 10, certainly up to Solaris
> 7.0.
>
> However when i try to boot from the installation media to install, it would
> appear that Qemu/openbios cannot find the bootable portion of the media.

This may be related to the change that disabled the buggy interpose
operation to improve SunOS support. Unfortunately fixing the interpose
bugs is beyond my Forth skills.

> Is there some tests/changes that i can make to assist in getting this to
> work.

Can you try if the attached patch to OpenBIOS changes anything?

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Index: openbios-quilt/drivers/esp.c
===================================================================
--- openbios-quilt.orig/drivers/esp.c	2007-04-19 14:16:45.000000000 +0000
+++ openbios-quilt/drivers/esp.c	2007-04-19 14:17:18.000000000 +0000
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
 
     selfword("open-deblocker");
 
-#if WHEN_INTERPOSE_IS_FIXED
+#if 1
     // Buggy implementation of "interpose" breaks SunOS 4.
     // inst2pkg of the device returned by open() should return
     // the same phandle regardless of whether any interposition