On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland <email address hidden> 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 news. Really, I'm hoping to just have a text-based
>> console like on my SS5 with the old familiar Sun logo and to start
>
> ..X?
Sorry, yes ... to be able to start X on demand now and again would be awesome.
>>> Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS -
>>> OpenBIOS has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years
>>> now so you may find that you can get by without the proprietary Sun ROM
>>> (and avoid having to manually type a boot command into OBP every time
>>> you restart). Unfortunately the OpenBIOS binaries for 1.7 also have a
>>> bug that breaks booting from hard disks (CDROMs are fine), but the
>>> updated binaries should be merged into git in time for the next 1.7.x
>>> release.
>>
>> Again, great news. I'm running Solaris 2.5.1 ... any clue if OpenBIOS
>> might work for me?
>
> No idea - I don't have many Solaris images for testing at all, so just try it and see. Although you need to wait for the fixed binaries to hit the QEMU 1.7/master git repo to fix another outstanding SPARC boot bug.
Standing by and looking forward to it!
>> If I may, do you know why qemu-system-sparc w/ OBP ignores the following
>> prom-env options?
>>
>> -prom-env 'boot-device=disk1' -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true'
>
> That's because the boot parameters are passed to the PROM via a QEMU custom FW interface (which OBP has no knowledge of) rather than by having QEMU emulate the NVRAM in exactly the same way as real hardware.
On Dec 24, 2013, at 6:22 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland <email address hidden> 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 news. Really, I'm hoping to just have a text-based
>> console like on my SS5 with the old familiar Sun logo and to start
>
> ..X?
Sorry, yes ... to be able to start X on demand now and again would be awesome.
>>> Also Artyom's blog is quite out of date with respect to OpenBIOS -
>>> OpenBIOS has been able to boot my test Solaris 8 image for over 2 years
>>> now so you may find that you can get by without the proprietary Sun ROM
>>> (and avoid having to manually type a boot command into OBP every time
>>> you restart). Unfortunately the OpenBIOS binaries for 1.7 also have a
>>> bug that breaks booting from hard disks (CDROMs are fine), but the
>>> updated binaries should be merged into git in time for the next 1.7.x
>>> release.
>>
>> Again, great news. I'm running Solaris 2.5.1 ... any clue if OpenBIOS
>> might work for me?
>
> No idea - I don't have many Solaris images for testing at all, so just try it and see. Although you need to wait for the fixed binaries to hit the QEMU 1.7/master git repo to fix another outstanding SPARC boot bug.
Standing by and looking forward to it!
>> If I may, do you know why qemu-system-sparc w/ OBP ignores the following
>> prom-env options?
>>
>> -prom-env 'boot-device=disk1' -prom-env 'auto-boot?=true'
>
> That's because the boot parameters are passed to the PROM via a QEMU custom FW interface (which OBP has no knowledge of) rather than by having QEMU emulate the NVRAM in exactly the same way as real hardware.
Makes sense; thanks for clarifying!
-peter