I could probably help with some of that, if I can get a build of qemu to test with on my box. And I can find time. (The latter might be the more problematic.)
- Garrett > On Nov 21, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > <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 <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 > <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 > <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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Garrett D'Amore via illumos-discuss > > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>] > > Sent: 星期五, 十一月 21, 2014 9:17 > > To: [email protected] <mailto:[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/ > > <http://brezular.com/2012/02/17/installation-solaris-2-6-sparc-on-qemu-part2-solaris-installation/> > > Fred > > illumos-discuss | Archives > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21503798-a4096dc8> | > Modify <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> Your Subscription > <http://www.listbox.com/> ------------------------------------------- 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
