On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 18 January 2017 at 22:38, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Remove the Niagara stub implementation from sun4u.c and add a machine, >> compatible with Legion simulator from the OpenSPARC T1 project. >> >> The machine uses the firmware supplied with the OpenSPARC T1 project, >> http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/OpenSPARCT1_Arch.1.5.tar.bz2 >> in the directory S10image/, and is able to boot the supplied Solaris 10 >> image. >> >> Note that for compatibility with the naming conventions for SPARC machines >> the new machine name is lowercase niagara. >> >> Signed-off-by: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@gmail.com> >> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <r...@twiddle.net> > > I see that 'make check' now warns: > GTESTER check-qtest-sparc64 > Could not open option rom 'nvram1': No such file or directory > Could not open option rom '1up-md.bin': No such file or directory > Could not open option rom '1up-hv.bin': No such file or directory > Could not open option rom 'reset.bin': No such file or directory > Could not open option rom 'q.bin': No such file or directory > Could not open option rom 'openboot.bin': No such file or directory > > (though the tests still pass). > > Could we either ship these images in pc-bios if they're > necessary, or not complain that they don't exist if they're > not necessary, please?
I wonder what would be the best option here. The images are necessary, so the last option - not complaining - can be misleading for a user. Concerning shipping them. Pros: - the images are obviously freely distributable (the link above). - the corresponding source code was open-sourced by Sun under various licenses (GPL for hypervisor, BSD for openboot). Cons: - there is no exact tag the the OpenSPARC source tree which would correspond to the binaries. - building them is tricky, because it requires Solaris 9 / SPARC. What do you think would be a better option? -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
