There was a flurry of activity a couple of months ago, but I haven''t seen any commits back to the qemu CVS for Solaris. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Ben Taylor wrote:>There was a flurry of activity a couple of months ago, but I haven''t seen any commits >back to the qemu CVS for Solaris. > >Math students at Technical University of Bln. haevily depend on *holidays* before they can do ANY thing else. So I apologize for my part. I can upgarde pkgs (sparc x86/64) to CVS if people feel, that there is a demand. What do the others say? -- Martin
Martin Bochnig wrote:>I can upgarde pkgs (sparc x86/64) to CVS if people feel, that there is a >demand. >What do the others say? > > >Another reason is, that I am still waiting for the next major realease for the pkgs, not CVS. Did I miss it?>-- >Martin >
Martin Bochnig wrote:> I can upgarde pkgs (sparc x86/64) to CVS if people feel, that there is a > demand. > What do the others say? > >I would like to see a new version of the x86/64 packages with the patch from Juergen Keil to make the info command working again. It''s annoying if you''re in the middle of a session, forget the bug, press info or "info someting_not_known" and your Qemu session crashes regards Bernd> -- > Martin > _______________________________________________ > qemu-discuss mailing list > qemu-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-discuss > >-- Bernd Schemmer, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://home.arcor.de/bnsmb/index.html M?s temprano que tarde el mundo cambiar?. Fidel Castro
> Martin Bochnig wrote: > > >I can upgarde pkgs (sparc x86/64) to CVS if people > feel, that there is a > >demand. > >What do the others say?Can we boot Solaris/Sparc in a qemu guest? (Sorry, someone else wrote me a private email about this, and I don''t know the answer)> > > Another reason is, that I am still waiting for the > next major realease > for the pkgs, not CVS.While CVS is admittly a moving target, it took a really long time just to get the initial Solaris patches into the qemu CVS. The CVS maintainers (there appear to be several now) look like they will accept small incremental patches. I''m pretty sure that a "big" patch would have a hard time getting into CVS.> Did I miss it?Not that I''m aware of. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Ben Taylor wrote:>I know you''re busy. I was just wondering what the status of the project >Okay okay Ben, (Bernd, else), no problem: This is a community project. You are absolutely right. I have delivered the last pre-holiday homework just a couple of hours ago.>From this very moment on do I have spare time and I will bring out newSUNWqemu packages for sparc and x86/x64, just exactly as promised and as indeed necessary - when taking into account the recent activity/productivity over at qemu. Count on my word: Release date this year. I''m also going to work on another project over the coming week, but I think I can flawlessly meet that shedule.>Can we boot Solaris Sparc yet? > >Unfortunately not (speaking of SunOS4.x/Solaris1.x and Solaris2.x 32 bit kernel): Good news is, that it successfully starts booting (a physical CD, a CD.iso or physical hdd) now. That is, it can read the vtoc now and starts executing bootblk. This quantum leap improvement is due to the fact, that qemu-system-sparc has moved to using openbios last summer. Bad news: openbios is a pretty good and standards conform implementation of ieee1275-94 OpenFirmware. But unfortunately is SUNW''s proprietary OBP implementation not so standards conform, but instead implements certain behaviour differently (through explicit ifdefs in its sources). So openbios sets up the qemu-system-sparc machine in a state that is not expected by the Solaris_32bit guest. And it then dies before any output would have been sent to the console (i.e. SunOS 5.8 32 bit ...). Though it actually is quite a lot what it already does do now. Blue Swirl is working on that front. There is an opensource version of SUNW''s OBP of implementation available for download on opensparc.org for 3 months now. Licensed under either BSD or GPL. It is a version optimized for use with sun4v (not sun4u). Maybe this can accellerate things. You should ask Blue Swirl for everything that has to do with sparc-emulation, please. My field is the HOST sparc support. And yes, I will incorporate Juergen Keil''s patch to make the info command work. Plus: I will look, where I have Sittichai''s patches stored. I will check, if it makes sense to integrate them as well. As proposed by Ben a couple of times. Thanks, Martin