Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 29/29] target-sparc: fix up Niagara machine

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Richard Henderson <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/01/2016 05:05 AM, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>>
>> Remove the Niagara stub implementation from sun4u.c and add a machine,
>> compatible with Legion simulator from the OpenSPARC T1 project.
>>
>> The machine uses the firmware supplied with the OpenSPARC T1 project,
>>
>> http://download.oracle.com/technetwork/systems/opensparc/OpenSPARCT1_Arch.1.5.tar.bz2
>> in the directory S10image/, and is able to boot the supplied Solaris 10
>> image.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Artyom Tarasenko <address@hidden>
>
>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <address@hidden>
>
> What do you plan to do about the roms?  Since they're open source, I don't
> see any reason we couldn't commit them into pc-bios/.

I have no short term plans on that: at least some of the
OBP/Hypervisor code is released under CDDL, which has some
incompatibilities with GPL.

>Of course if we do that ...
>
>> +    rom_add_file_fixed("nvram1", NIAGARA_NVRAM_BASE, -1);
>> +    rom_add_file_fixed("1up-md.bin", NIAGARA_MD_ROM_BASE, -1);
>> +    rom_add_file_fixed("1up-hv.bin", NIAGARA_HV_ROM_BASE, -1);
>> +
>> +    rom_add_file_fixed("reset.bin", NIAGARA_PROM_BASE, -1);
>> +    rom_add_file_fixed("q.bin", NIAGARA_PROM_BASE + NIAGARA_Q_OFFSET,
>> -1);
>> +    rom_add_file_fixed("openboot.bin", NIAGARA_PROM_BASE +
>> NIAGARA_OBP_OFFSET,
>> +                       -1);
>
>
> ... these would surely need better names.

Absolutely.


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Artyom Tarasenko

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