I'm currently working towards emulating Solaris 10 on sun4u. The Solaris 10 ISO image I am attempting to boot is the one from the Oracle download page at https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris10/downloads/solaris10-get-jsp-downloads.html. Image: sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso MD5: 53e8b066f7f250ce2fd2cef063f8072b
I am using QEMU commit 7bd9d0a9e26c7a3c67c0f174f0009ba19969b158. The command I am using to run QEMU is: ./qemu/sparc64-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc64 -bios ./openbios/obj-sparc64/openbios-builtin.elf -cdrom ./iso/solaris/sol-10-u11-ga-sparc-dvd.iso -boot d -nographic -m 3G ``` CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Feb 5 2020 19:15 Type 'help' for detailed information Trying cdrom:f... Not a bootable ELF image Not a bootable a.out image Loading FCode image... Loaded 7420 bytes entry point is 0x4000 Evaluating FCode... Evaluating FCode... Ignoring failed claim for va 1000000 memsz af6d6! Ignoring failed claim for va 1402000 memsz 4dcc8! Ignoring failed claim for va 1800000 memsz 510c8! SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_147147-26 64-bit Copyright (c) 1983, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. could not find debugger-vocabulary-hook>threads:interpret: exception -13 caught interpret \ Copyright (c) 1995-1999 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. \ All rights reserved. \ \ ident "@(#)data64.fth 1.3 00/07/17 SMI" hex only forth also definitions vocabulary kdbg-words also kdbg-words definitions defer p@ defer p! ['] x@ is p@ ['] x! is p! 8 constant ptrsize d# 32 constant nbitsminor h# ffffffff constant maxmin \ \ Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. \ Use is subject to license terms. \ \ #pragma ident "@(#)kdbg.fth 1.20 08/06/06 SMI" h# 7ff constant v9bias h# unix-tte:interpret: exception -13 caught interpret ' unix-tte is va>tte-data failed with error ffffffffffffffed WARNING: consconfig: cannot find driver for screen device /pci@1fe,0/pci@1,1/QEMU,VGA@2 Configuring devices. WARNING: Interrupt not seen after set_features Using RPC Bootparams for network configuration information. Attempting to configure interface hme0... WARNING: Power off requested from power button or SC, powering down the system! Skipped interface hme0 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default: WARNING: /usr/sbin/zfs mount -a failed: one or more file systems failed to mount Serial console, reverting to text install Beginning system identification... Searching for configuration file(s)... Search complete. Discovering additional network configuration... ``` The installation menu is shown after but the console is unresponsive. After some debugging, it looks like the QEMU front-end is correctly filling the serial receive buffer with characters, and then starts dropping them once the number of characters in the buffer reach the interrupt level. The interrupt level happens to be 1 when booting Solaris 10. This looks like normal behaviour to me. I started looking at why the serial receive buffer might not be consumed and considered that interrupts might not be being raised correctly. I ran with tracing and there were no interrupts for IRQ 0x2b like there are when using OpenBSD. When inspecting the registers of the serial device it looks like the Interrupt Enable Register is set to zero. If Solaris 10 was using the device is polling mode, it should be reading the RBR or at least the LSR. When tracing serial_ioport_read and serial_ioport_write, once the menu is hit, I don't see any read or writes to the serial device registers despite me trying to send characters and use the menu. The driver Solaris 10 is using for the device appears to be similar/same as /usr/src/uts/sun4/io/su_driver.c in the OpenSolaris code found at https://github.com/nxmirrors/onnv. ``` asy->asy_hwtype = ASY16550AF; OUTB(FIFOR, 0x00); /* clear fifo register */ asy->asy_trig_level = 0x00; /* sets the fifo Threshold to 1 */ /* set/Enable FIFO */ OUTB(FIFOR, FIFO_ON | FIFODMA | FIFOTXFLSH | FIFORXFLSH | (asy->asy_trig_level & 0xff)); if ((INB(ISR) & 0xc0) == 0xc0) asy->asy_use_fifo = FIFO_ON; /* QEMU REACHES HERE. */ else { asy->asy_hwtype = ASY8250; OUTB(FIFOR, 0x00); /* NO FIFOs */ asy->asy_trig_level = 0; } ``` >From what I can tell when tracing serial_ioport_write and serial_ioport_read, Solaris 10 correctly identifies the serial device and successfully attaches it. In the asyattach function (OpenSolaris driver), interrupts are disabled by zeroing the Interrupt Enable Register. From what I'm reading in OpenSolaris source code, interrupts are reenabled when the device is "opened". This seems like consistent and correct behaviour though I'm not sure why the device is not being opened to be used by the serial console. Is this an issue anyone else has tried to debug? Are there any leads that I can follow up on for why the serial console becomes unresponsive on Solaris 10? Thanks, Lowell.
