Having lurked for some time on both lists, I know that Mark (mcayland) and Blueswirl are working on this. The current shortage comes in with kernel internals, I believe. See Mark's question here: http://www.openfirmware.info/pipermail/openbios/2014-September/008520.html They aren't sure how to setup the emulated machine to support kernel debugging. I haven't seen anything after that to say if they figured it out of not.
Nathan Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:11:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [discuss] Developing for SPARC From: [email protected] To: [email protected]; [email protected] CC: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] IIRC, Sparc64 Qemu support isn't up to much ... at least not in the released versions: http://www.openfirmware.info/OpenBIOS "OpenBIOS/SPARC64 is currently able to boot the following OS/kernels: Linux (with virtio drivers)" however the latest QEMU seems to point to the fact that you can boot a BSD on it (although it might be talking about Sparc32) http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.2#SPARC If you look at the OpenBIOS subversion repository though: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openbios/log/trunk/openbios-devel you'll see a lot of recent commits by a "mcayland", and a "blueswirl" who appear to be working on Sparc support. I haven't had the time, or the need, to compile any of it recently in order to check if Sparc works in QEMU now. Jon On 21 November 2014 08:18, Fred Liu via illumos-discuss <[email protected]> wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 星期五, 十一月 21, 2014 9:17 > To: [email protected]; Lloyd Dewolf > Cc: Alex McWhirter > Subject: Re: [discuss] Developing for SPARC > > The problem is finding a reliable distribution that can build and host > illumos-gate. > > There are a few distros that have some effort here — Igor Kozhukov > maintains DiLOS that I think has SPARC support, but it comes with > debian packaging and is quite experimental. > > I believe Peter Tribble has made some progress with SPARC on his > Tribblix distribution, but again I think it doesn’t use the same > packaging system (legacy SVR4 in this case I believe) and is probably > very experimental (I believe it has only Peter working on it at the > moment.) > > Probably the single biggest thing to help SPARC that any individual > could do would be to figure out how to get one of the mainstream > distros like OpenIndiana or OmniOS built for it — including > installation media. Given installable ISOs, I suspect that many of the > other barriers will fall away. > > (The problem with OI has always been lack of sufficiently interested > people to do the rather large job of keeping a functional SPARC build > of their distribution alive.) Omni is maintained by OmniTI, and I > believe they are strictly an x86 shop.) > > The *other* thing that would be enormously useful would be figuring out > if we can boot any opensolaris on a qemu system running on any of > illumos-x86, MacOS, or Linux. (Ideally it shouldn’t matter that much, > but I don’t know how easy it is to use qemu SPARC emulations on > different systems.) While this would be quite slow, I doubt it would > be a lot slower than some actual SPARC hardware, when used with a very > fast modern x86 CPU on the host. :-) There is hacking to run Solaris 2.6 sparc on qemu. http://brezular.com/2012/02/17/installation-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-part2-solaris-installation/ Fred illumos-discuss | Archives | Modify Your Subscription ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
