Re: [OpenBIOS] Some SPARC32 Patches

[Artyom Tarasenko]

Salut Olivier,
> I tried NextSTEP, which needs the patches
> marked + above.
> Alas, this is not enough to make it run.
> Maybe it is because QEMU SCSI disk and ESP emulation are too fast.

I played with NextSTEP/sparc a few years ago and got the same impression.
I've managed to get it boot into a single user mode, but it was
unstable on disk operations. Just a simple
dd if=/dev/sd0a of=/dev/null was able to get it hanging. And I think
it was hanging in the kernel idle loop doing nothing.

If there were a Darwin/sparc ditribution, we could take a look, if
it's really a bug in NextSTEP or in qemu-system-sparc. But I couldn't
find such a distribution.

Artyom