Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu 0.12.5 sparc64 debian 505

[Blue Swirl]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Artyom Tarasenko
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 2010/8/19 Blue Swirl <address@hidden>:
>> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Laurikainen, Tuukka
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> As the Sparc64 support is not complete, I thought I'd ask here before
>>> reporting a bug.
>>>
>>> Trying to boot a Debian netboot cd image for Sparc with Qemu 0.12.5:
>>>
>>> # qemu-system-sparc64 -boot d -cdrom debian-505-sparc-businesscard.iso
>>> -nographic -hda sparc.img
>>> OpenBIOS for Sparc64
>>> Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
>>> CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-II
>>> UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>>> Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Dec 6 2009 11:16
>>>  Type 'help' for detailed information
>>>
>>> [sparc64] Booting file 'cdrom' with parameters ''
>>> Not a bootable ELF image
>>> Not a Linux kernel image
>>> Loading a.out image...
>>> Loaded 7680 bytes
>>> entry point is 0x4000
>>> Jumping to entry point...
>>> switching to new context: entry point 0x4000 stack 0x00000000ffe02a71
>>> SILO Version 1.4.13
>>> \
>>>
>>>                  Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux lenny!
>>>
>>> This is a Debian installation CDROM, built on 20100627-10:50.
>>> Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it
>>> to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary.
>>>
>>> WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before
>>>  proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly
>>>  erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue CD from
>>>  the drive and press L1-A to get back to the OpenBoot prompt.
>>>
>>> Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
>>> permitted
>>> by applicable law.
>>>
>>> [ ENTER - Boot install ]   [ Type "expert" - Boot into expert mode ]
>>>                           [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ]
>>> boot:
>>> Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
>>> Loaded kernel version 2.6.26
>>> Loading initial ramdisk (4310561 bytes at 0xC00000 phys, 0x40C00000
>>> virt)...
>>> qemu: unsupported keyboard cmd=0x02
>>> FLOPPY ERROR: fdctrl_unimplemented: unimplemented command 0xfe
>>> Pqemu: unsupported keyboard cmd=0xb1
>>> FLOPPY ERROR: fdctrl_unimplemented: unimplemented command 0xc4
>>
>> This is about how far Sparc64 boot gets now. With a custom kernel I
>> get much further (IDE probe) but there are still a few unimplemented
>> features.
>
> Is there a list of what is missing? You mentioned the pci bridges
> before. What else?
> Shall we maintain the TODO file for everything we find? Including
> things we may fix within a few days after finding?

Actually, we have a TODO file, see under target-sparc. Thanks for
reminding me. ;-)