Really. Who has a sound card on a sparc server anyway? (I can feel the offended stares of the Sun Blade100 users)



From: Tarl Neustaedter <tarl-b2@tarl.net>;
To: The OpenBIOS Mailinglist <openbios@openbios.org>;
Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?
Sent: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 7:54:39 PM

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> Hmmm it looks from reading the source code that QEMU doesn't actually implement a proper audio device for SS-5 at all but merely provides a dummy device with an empty mapped region. In that case it may be possible to provide a simple mapping in OpenBIOS to match the one in QEMU which may be enough to persuade Solaris to boot.

Ugh. I recall that audio chip being non-trivial...

It might be worth deleting that audio device from the device tree and see if Solaris really does get further.


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