---- Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:
>
> > Another thing that might be fun would be NextStep on Sparc in qemu...
>
> Oh God.
>
> I actually have a copy of NeXT here in an unopened box. I was not too
sure
> what to do with it.
>
> I tried out Sparc emulation a long time ago and it barely worked. I was
> able to load in Red Hat Linux 6.2 for Sparc for a little while and then it
> blew up badly. I gave up after that.
It''s getting there. but not enough for SunOS or Solaris, AFAIK.
The openbios folks need some forth experts to help resolve some
issues around how the customizations in the normal sun openboot
do some device remapping, IIRC.
> That was .. at least a year ago.
It''s getting better. Some of the debian and netbsd sparc stuff is
booting and
installing. I haven''t played much with it since june.
> Has there been any work done in the QEMU Sparc emulation code since then?
Yes, there is a guy who is active on both the openboot and qemu projects who is
trying to get this stuff nailed down. But he is admittedly not a forth expert,
so the
SunOS/Solaris stuff is not going to make progress unless he gets lucky, or we
can
find someone with some experience with forth and openboot to try and work out
the details.
> If not, then I can only wish you luck. Let me know how far you get with
> even booting a QEMU Sparc virtual machine.
Debian, *bsd and maybe the RH sparc port probably work. however, I imagine
those
aren''t particularly interesting to an opensolaris crowd. ;-)
Ben
