Martin Bochnig wrote: > Brian D. Horn wrote: > >>>> The current port uses a virtual firmware; create a bootable binary of >>>> VOF and let qemu-ppc boot from that, and it will bring the OF prompt >>>> (hopefully), and from there solaris kernel can be loaded and booted. >>>> but there probably lots of device issues here and it may turn out not >>>> worth to go this way. >>>> >>>> >>> Sure. >>> I had the same idea a while ago. But it is not even possible to boot >>> the historic VOF (from Solaris 2.5/2.5.1/2.6) inside qemu or PearPC. >>> Neither VOF1.0, nor VOF 2.0 . >>> For several reasons :-( >>> >>> >> And those reasons are...? It might be useful to know the deficiencies >> of Qemu for evaluation >> purposes. >> > > qemu-system-ppc lacks (or lacked) support for booting from a floppy. > The above is not a barrier. We could easily boot from an IDE disk instead. We were also looking at a ram disk image. > Further, I had been a qemu maintainer at csw since 2004 > http://www.blastwave.org/packages/CSWqemu > http://www.blastwave.org/maintainers/bochnig > and then at opensol since 2006 > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/qemu/leaders/ . > In fact I have even done a small part (Juergen Keil did the bigger > chunk) of getting it ported to SPARC hosts. > You always run into new incompatibilities, odd behaviour of guest code, > even on x86 (which is the best supported emulation target), not even > thinking about ppc. > I cannot recommend qemu for what you are dreaming of how you might use > it. It will disappoint you. > If you dont believe me allow me a question: Did you try it yourself? If > so, what were the results? > No, we have not tried it ourselves. It was recently suggested (by others) that we ought to try it. I just looked at this at any level for the first time yesterday. If others, such as yourself, know things that will tell us that it is a fool hardy task and we would be wasting our time, then I would like to know that and why so we don't waste the time.
Thanks, Brian > -- > Cheers, > MBO > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
