Re: [Qemu-devel] work needed to get solaris to boot under qemu-system-sparc

[Paul Brook]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 14:16, Ben Taylor wrote:
> The question came up a little while back about getting Solaris (Sparc) to
> boot in qemu under qemu-system-sparc.
>
> I did a little work yesterday to find out that the boot process in
> hw/sun4m.c is really kind of hard wired for a linux boot.   If there is no
> kernel or initrd, it drops right through. In reality, if those variables
> aren't set, and the boot device is cdrom, shouldn't there be some code to
> load the boot block in slice 3 of the cd/dvd?  At worst case, it seems that
> we could probably extract the boot block and force qemu to load that with
> the hope of getting a solaris/sparc on qemu started, since slice 1 of the
> cd/dvd is the kernel and root directory structure.  Slice 0 is the install
> media.
>
> Ideas?  I'm neck deep in the pool and have no idea where to start.

Real sun SPARC systems use an OpenFirmware (aka OpenBoot) based system.

http://www.openbios.org/ indicates there is a qemu/sparc port in progress.

Paul