On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/11/13 Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com>: >> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Artyom Tarasenko >> <atar4q...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>>> Could you describe the steps how to boot Solaris with OBP? I'm sure >>>>> there are a lot of people who'd like to test if their favorite Sparc >>>>> Solaris programs work on QEMU. >>> >>> Gathered things for which I currently have hacks here: >>> http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/11/things-missing-in-vanilla-qemu.html >>> >>> Actually for OBP itself it's just two (SS-5) or three (SS-20) things: >>> >>> - Floppy. Instead of fixing it, I broke it completely, so OBP doesn't >>> try to initialize it and hang. Actually it maybe not the fdc itself, >>> but the irq handling. There are OBP tests which may help to understand >>> what is currently going wrong. I didn't need it, does the fdc actually >>> work under linux/netbsd/OpenBIOS? >> >> Not at least Linux, IIRC Linux floppy driver is broken. FDC is wired a >> bit differently from PC setup. We don't need it, but getting OBP just >> to accept it would be nice. >> >>> - [SparcStation-5] 0x6e000000 AFX. OBP tries to access it and fails >>> with "unassigned address exception". Is only present in the SS-5's >>> TCX. The required address space is just one byte long. IMHO makes no >>> sense to create a special stub device for it. Can we push it into the >>> TCX? >> >> I'd put it to sun4m.c, there is similar device (idreg) already. > > Ok, I made one patch for fdc.c (it turned out that for SS5-only fix, a > very small change is needed), and a small afx patch for sun4m.c . > Shall I post them marked "for 0.12" or shall we do it in 0.13 ?
Depends on the patches.
