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> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:54:39 -0400<br>> From: tarl-b2@tarl.net<br>> To: openbios@openbios.org<br>> Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?<br>> <br>> > Hmmm it looks from reading the source code that QEMU doesn't actually <br>> > implement a proper audio device for SS-5 at all but merely provides a <br>> > dummy device with an empty mapped region. In that case it may be <br>> > possible to provide a simple mapping in OpenBIOS to match the one in <br>> > QEMU which may be enough to persuade Solaris to boot.<br>> <br>> Ugh. I recall that audio chip being non-trivial...<br>> <br>> It might be worth deleting that audio device from the device tree and <br>> see if Solaris really does get further.<br>> <br>I've tried the same CD image with the SS-10 QEMU machine, which seems to lack the audio device, and I still hang. I get the first part of the kernel, no extra logging, and then the spinner to infinity...<br><br>nathan@xanth:/usr/local/build/qemu$ sparc-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc -bios openbios-builtin.elf -M SS-10 -cdrom /local/storage/ISO/solaris-9-sparc-d1.iso -nographic<br><br>Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 64<br>CPUs: 1 x TI,TMS390Z55<br>UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000<br>Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Apr 30 2011 02:11<br> Type 'help' for detailed information<br>Trying disk...<br>No valid state has been set by load or init-program<br><br>0 > boot cd:d -k -v Not a bootable ELF image<br>Loading a.out image...<br>Loaded 7680 bytes<br>entry point is 0x4000<br>bootpath: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd@2,0:d<br><br>Jumping to entry point 00004000 for type 00000005...<br>switching to new context:<br>Size: 0x45c9f+0xdaf1+0x1d6a7 Bytes<br>SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-12 32-bit<br>Copyright 1983-2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.<br>Use is subject to license terms.<br>Ethernet address = 52:54:0:12:34:56<br>Using default device instance data<br>\<br><br><br>Does anyone know what loads on a real SS after the audio device?<br><br>Nathan<br><br> </body>
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