On 2014/09/09 21:18, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 09/09/14 19:57, Brad Smith wrote: > > >The Realtek hardware in that dmesg is an NE2000 PCI adapter which > >the sparc64 kernel config indeed does not have a driver for at the > >very moment, although it could be added. Having a QEMU driver for > >the Happy Meal MAC would provide the best level of compatibility > >with other OS's as that is what comes with a lot of Sun systems. > > Agreed. Once I've sorted out the NVRAM issues in theory QEMU should be able > to run some older 64-bit Solaris 9-10 kernels, and I suspect I'll need to > implement a virtual hme device in order for that to work.
In terms of real Solaris, one of the machine types it runs on is the netra x1 which has a Davicom DM9102, which is a dec 21140 "tulip" clone using the dc(4) driver on OpenBSD. As far as NICs go, this might not be too horrendous to emulate - at least, Microsoft managed to emulate a 21140 in Virtual Server, and numerous NIC vendors made clones of it.
