On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:46 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.
This misinformation made me feel obliged to fix it in the upstream. So, today's QEMU git can boot FreeBSD/sparc64. Don't know though whether it's really relevant for anyone at debian-sparc mailing list. :-) (15+ years ago, mentioning *BSD on a Linux mailing list or vice-versa would cause a holly war, but now we are all grown up, right?) > 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