On 07/04/16 10:29, Michael-John Turner wrote: > On Thu, Apr 07, 2016 at 11:12:50AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> The document you linked is over 6 years old! sparc64 emulation is pretty >> usable already, I have installed the sparc64 netinst images that I built >> without any problems. > > Ah, I missed the date at the bottom of the page and didn't realise that! > I'm not sure that installing newer version of Solaris works yet though (at > least according to this[1] 2015 thread from Stack Exchange). Still, > possibly worth a try though. > > [1] > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/199827/booting-solaris-10-or-11-for-sparc-in-qemu-system-sparc64
Currently FreeBSD and Solaris don't boot under qemu-system-sparc64, although progress has been slow recently as most of my spare time went into last year's GSoC. I'm gradually starting to find time to look at SPARC issues again and of course more testing/bug reports are always welcome :) ATB, Mark.
