On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Michael-John Turner <m...@mjturner.net> > 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. > > Not yet. There is some progress, for instance, qemu-system-sparc64 > can boot Linux since March 2013 [1], and NetBSD since 2014 [2]. > One of the problems is that qemu-system-sparc64 emulates a workstation > which has been never existed as a bare metal. Therefore it's not > possible to use an existing firmware to boot Solaris and Solaris for > 64 bit SPARC machines is very picky about the firmware. > But Mark Cave-Ayland is working on OpenBIOS (in the mean time it can > already boot FreeBSD)
Ops. Have just seen the mail from Mark, that not yet. Sorry for the mis-information. The rest is still valid. :-) > and I work on sun4v emulation which could re-use > Firmware from the OpenSPARC project (its Firmware is indeed > Solaris-compatible). > So, stay tuned. > > > 1. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2013/03/debiansparc64-wheezy-under-qemu-how-to.html > 2. http://tyom.blogspot.de/2014/08/upstream-qemu-can-run-netbsdsparc64.html > -- > Regards, > Artyom Tarasenko > > SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
