Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 12:22, Romain Dolbeau wrote: > 2016-05-18 13:06 GMT+02:00 Mark Cave-Ayland > >: >> The short version is that the QEMU NVRAM format is different from that >> of a real SS-5 machine (and indeed QEMU doesn't support

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 16:00, Adrian Davey wrote: > On 2016-05-18 11:44, David Griffith wrote: >> On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: >> >>> On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: > >>> Ahhh

Re: Bug#807006 closed by Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> (Bug#807006: fixed in qemu 1:2.6+dfsg-1)

Control: reopen -1 I'm sorry, but this has not been fixed [1]. In fact, this particular patch hasn't even merged in the git repository of qemu [2]. It might not be the best idea to close Debian bugs anonymously, e.g. merely by referencing their bug numbers without an actual message. Adrian >

Re: Bug#807006 closed by Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> (Bug#807006: fixed in qemu 1:2.6+dfsg-1)

18.05.2016 22:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Control: reopen -1 > > I'm sorry, but this has not been fixed [1]. In fact, this particular > patch hasn't even merged in the git repository of qemu [2]. Yes, my bad, I looked in the wrong branch and thought the patch is applied. > It might

Re: Bug#807006 closed by Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> (Bug#807006: fixed in qemu 1:2.6+dfsg-1)

On 05/18/2016 11:25 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> It might not be the best idea to close Debian bugs anonymously, e.g. >> merely by referencing their bug numbers without an actual message. > > "Anonymously" is definitely not the correct word here. > > Unfortunately my time limit for releasing

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 10:34, David Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > >> On 18/05/16 10:02, David Griffith wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to boot an old debian ISO under qemu sparc, but all I >>> can get is a black screen unless I use the -nographic option. I start >>> with

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 11:21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/18/2016 12:07 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >> Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for >> qemu-system-sparc :( > > Possible license issue. ROM files are always a bit of a problem > for distributions which actually

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for qemu-system-sparc :( You should be able to grab the

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 05/18/2016 12:07 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for > qemu-system-sparc :( Possible license issue. ROM files are always a bit of a problem for distributions which actually respect copyrights and make sure all packages come with a full

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for qemu-system-sparc :( You should be able to grab the binaries directly from QEMU git at

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

2016-05-18 13:06 GMT+02:00 Mark Cave-Ayland : > The short version is that the QEMU NVRAM format is different from that > of a real SS-5 machine (and indeed QEMU doesn't support NVRAM > persistence for that interface yet) It's quite easy to fix this if you're willing

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: >> Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for >> qemu-system-sparc :( >> >> You should be able to grab the binaries directly from QEMU git at >>

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for qemu-system-sparc :( You should be able to grab the binaries directly from QEMU git at

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 11:44, David Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: > >> On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: >>> On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: >>> On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: >> Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 11:57, David Griffith wrote: >> Excellent! If you drop the -bios ss5.bin from the command line and use >> the in-built OpenBIOS ROM then you can use -boot d on the command line - >> that really is the easiest option IMO. >> >> Otherwise you need to manually type "boot disk2:d" into

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 11:32, Adrian Davey wrote: > package openbios-sparc adds > /usr/share/openbios/QEMU,tcx.bin > /usr/share/openbios/openbios-sparc32 > /usr/share/openbios/openbios-sparc64 > > it could be that qemu is not looking at the correct location, I see only > symlinks from /usr/share/qemu/ to

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:44, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian

booting qemu sparc gives black window

I've been trying to boot an old debian ISO under qemu sparc, but all I can get is a black screen unless I use the -nographic option. I start with this: qemu-img create -f qed sparcdisk.img 2G Then this: qemu-system-sparc -bios ss5.bin -vga cg3 -g 1152x900 -hda sparcdisk.img -cdrom

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: >>> Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with jessie-backports to >>> no avail. None of your suggestions worked at all. >> >> Hmmm I wonder if what you're seeing is a framebuffer issue with GTK? Do >> you see any of the GTK menus at all around

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 10:02, David Griffith wrote: > I've been trying to boot an old debian ISO under qemu sparc, but all I > can get is a black screen unless I use the -nographic option. I start > with this: > > qemu-img create -f qed sparcdisk.img 2G > > Then this: > > qemu-system-sparc -bios ss5.bin

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 18/05/16 11:01, David Griffith wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > >> On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: >> > Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with > jessie-backports to > no avail. None of your suggestions worked at all. Hmmm I

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:01, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with jessie-backports to no avail. None of your suggestions worked at

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:34, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:02, David Griffith wrote: I've been trying to boot an old debian ISO under qemu sparc, but all I can get is a black screen unless I use the

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote: Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5. I upgraded to 2.6 with jessie-backports to no avail. None of your suggestions worked at all. Hmmm I wonder if what you're seeing is a framebuffer issue with GTK? Do you see

Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

On 2016-05-18 11:44, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Adrian Davey wrote: On 2016-05-18 11:27, David Griffith wrote: On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: On 18/05/16 11:11, David Griffith wrote: Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for