William Kucharski wrote: > Martin Bochnig wrote: >> Brian D. Horn wrote: >>> We were also looking at a ram disk image. >> >> Good morning!
To avoid ambiguity: This greeting was targeted at myself. I had missed that point before. Therefore good morning to myself ... Now I see Brian could have potentially misinterpreted it. >> Sorry: You mean similar to how can can mount the linux kernel with qemu? > > Correct. > > The problem is that while the ODW is perhaps a stable platform for > development, the barriers to entry for anyone who is interested in the > port is just too high. Of course. I can understand your motivation very well. > > If even a reasonable facsimile of Solaris can be made to run on qemu, > you now have the advantage of not needing to beg or borrow an obsolete > hardware platform just to contribute to the OpenSolaris PPC community. Yep. > > Further, you also no longer need an ODW as a baseline to port the PPC > code to other PPC platforms - whether the EFIKA, 405-based single > board solutions, or other boxes. > > Since QEMU can emulate a PowerMac, this also increases the likelihood > that the Solaris port could be made to work on actual PowerMacs, by > far the most common PowerPC desktop readily available, with minimal > extra effort. The emulation is incomplete in many aspects. Otherwise it sounds too nice, as said before. > > I'm not saying it's possible without a lot of work, or for that matter > that it's EVEN possible, but it should at least be investigated as > thoroughly as possible at this point as it would make life much, much > easier for future users of and contributors to OpenSolaris. Okay, let us encourage anyone to do some research on that. It is true that qemu is a moving target. So it may be worth the effort to try it again every n-1 months. > > Any help we can get from members of the OpenSolaris community who have > QEMU PPC experience would be greatly appreciated. I for my part will repeat my tests. Maybe I can try a bit harder, this time. -- Martin Bochnig
