On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Brad <brad@comstyle.com> wrote:

I know sparc64 had little chance of actually working but I thought I'd take it for a spin with 0.15.0-rc1 and see how it fared in addition to macppc which has a good chance of working nowdays with modern QEMU. Lets see what QEMU and related bugs are left..

I noticed the bootblocks for each respective arch are failing in a very similar manner. I would guess that this is most likely a bug with the OpenBIOS Open Firmware implementation?

Any assistance with this? Blue?

$ qemu-system-ppc -nographic -cdrom cd50.iso -boot d

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============================================================= OpenBIOS 1.0 [Jun 16 2011 08:02] Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 2 CPUs: 1 Memory: 128M UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 CPU type PowerPC,750 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jun 16 2011 08:02 Trying cd:,\\:tbxi... OpenBSD/macppc BOOT 1.1 open(cd:/etc/boot.conf): Unknown error: code 24 boot> ?

$ qemu-system-sparc64 -nographic -cdrom cd50.iso -boot d OpenBIOS for Sparc64 Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0 kernel cmdline CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jul 20 2011 21:17  Type 'help' for detailed information Trying cdrom:f... Not a bootable ELF image Not a bootable a.out image

Loading FCode image... Loaded 4829 bytes entry point is 0x4000 OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 1.3 .. Jumping to entry point 0000000000100000 for type 0000000000000001... switching to new context: entry point 0x100000 stack 0x00000000ffe86b49

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OpenBSD BOOT 1.4 Trying bsd... open ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: Unknown error: code 24

Boot:

I get this with OpenBSD 4.3: OpenBIOS for Sparc64 Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0 kernel cmdline CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Jul 20 2011 21:17 Type 'help' for detailed information Trying cdrom:f... Not a bootable ELF image Not a bootable a.out image Loading FCode image... Loaded 4893 bytes entry point is 0x4000 OpenBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock 1.1 .. Jumping to entry point 0000000000800000 for type 0000000000000001... switching to new context: entry point 0x800000 stack 0x00000000ffe86b49

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OpenBSD BOOT 1.2 Trying bsd... Booting cdrom:f/bsd 2590536@0x1000000+3236576@0x1800000+957728@0x1b162e0 symbols @ 0xffcda1c0 36 start=0x1000000 CHAINprom_get_msgbuf: test failed prom_get_msgbuf: allocated new buf at 00000000 prom_get_msgbuf: claiming new buf at 00000000