[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2014-03-26 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Marking as Fix released as qemu 1.7.1 with the updated OpenBIOS images is now available. ATB, Mark. ** Changed in: qemu Status: New = Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU.

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Hi Peter, Just to add that the updated OpenBIOS images attached above are now in QEMU git master. I've CC'd qemu-stable so they should get merged into the next 1.7.x release too. ATB, Mark. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-31 Thread Artyom Tarasenko
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Peter Bartoli pe...@bartoli.org wrote: On Dec 28, 2013, at 2:00 AM, Artyom Tarasenko atar4q...@gmail.com wrote: Actually QEMU does set variables in NVRAM (hw/sparc/sun4m.c:151), and afaik uses the layout of open-sourced OBP. The problem is that earlier

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-31 Thread Peter Bartoli
Thanks, Artyom. Heads up: Solaris 2.5.1 doesn't boot with OpenBIOS. I'll be happy to help with some regression testing, if you like. -peter On Dec 31, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Artyom Tarasenko atar4q...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Peter Bartoli pe...@bartoli.org wrote: On

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-30 Thread Peter Bartoli
On Dec 28, 2013, at 2:00 AM, Artyom Tarasenko atar4q...@gmail.com wrote: Actually QEMU does set variables in NVRAM (hw/sparc/sun4m.c:151), and afaik uses the layout of open-sourced OBP. The problem is that earlier versions of OBP seemed to have a different layout, or maybe just a magic

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-28 Thread Artyom Tarasenko
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk wrote: On 23/12/13 21:00, Peter Bartoli wrote: I currently have patches for a CG3 framebuffer pending that will enable you to boot Solaris into graphics mode, which I hope will be applied soon. That is AWESOME

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 23/12/13 21:00, Peter Bartoli wrote: I currently have patches for a CG3 framebuffer pending that will enable you to boot Solaris into graphics mode, which I hope will be applied soon. That is AWESOME news. Really, I'm hoping to just have a text-based console like on my SS5 with the old

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-24 Thread Peter Bartoli
On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk wrote: On 23/12/13 21:00, Peter Bartoli wrote: I currently have patches for a CG3 framebuffer pending that will enable you to boot Solaris into graphics mode, which I hope will be applied soon. That is AWESOME

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-23 Thread Peter Bartoli
I can confirm, by the way, that the QEMU,tcx.bin replacement does indeed allow the On Dec 23, 2013, at 12:05 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk wrote: Thanks for the feedback. Actually it does boot in TCX mode with the FCode ROM attached to this bug report - well at least

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Hi Peter, Thanks for the bug report - it was caused by the FCode ROM containing some Forth that depended upon some specific OpenBIOS variables that weren't present in OBP. If you replace the QEMU,tcx.bin from QEMU 1.7 with the one attached to this bug report then you should be able to boot your

[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1262081] Re: qemu-system-sparc in qemu 1.7.0 fails to boot with Sun ROM

2013-12-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
** Attachment added: Updated QEMU,tcx.bin FCode ROM for QEMU 1.7+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1262081/+attachment/390/+files/QEMU%2Ctcx.bin -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU.