Re: [OpenBIOS] Request to help for Sparc arch - Solaris vm creation.

[Programmingkid]

On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Lsrtej P wrote:
> Hi  Openbios team,
>
> First of all I would like to thank you for the contribution to opensource community which is helping lot of developers like me to progress professionally.
>
> It would be great if you can help me with the problem I am facing with using qemu with openbios .
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> I am trying to create a solaris  environment with sparc architecture  on an ubuntu 14.04  linux OS with help of qemu-system-sparc .
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> When I am trying to load a solaris image using this qemu-system-sparc64 i am getting the following  error message .
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> When I tried debugging it I found that the openbios-sparc is not installed in ubuntu machine I am working with .
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> This qemu-system-sparc64 uses a softlink which points to the directory /usr/share/qemu/openbios-sparc64 which is not found in the machine .
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> I am stuck here , I am not sure what should be the contents of the above directory so that this sparc emulation works good .
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> I tried to install the openbios from your official  website but failed in using it along with qemu .
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> Can you please help me to get out of this situation or suggest me some way to create a 64 bit sparc solaris environment on linux os .
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> Warm Regards, 
> Tej

I tried to make a sparc32 and a sparc64 binary, but I saw a bunch of errors instead. Just to go past the 'switch-arch' stage, I had to rename sparc32_config.xml to sparc_config.xml. The build system for sparc might need a little fixing.

Request to help for Sparc arch - Solaris vm creation.

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 15/03/16 14:33, Programmingkid wrote:
> I tried to make a sparc32 and a sparc64 binary, but I saw a bunch of errors instead. Just to go past the 'switch-arch' stage, I had to rename sparc32_config.xml to sparc_config.xml. The build system for sparc might need a little fixing.

I've tested this a few days ago in order to test the gcc6 patches for
Cole and it works fine here? What errors did you see?


ATB,

Mark.

Request to help for Sparc arch - Solaris vm creation.

[Programmingkid]

On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:53 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 15/03/16 14:33, Programmingkid wrote:
> > I tried to make a sparc32 and a sparc64 binary, but I saw a bunch of errors instead. Just to go past the 'switch-arch' stage, I had to rename sparc32_config.xml to sparc_config.xml. The build system for sparc might need a little fixing.
>
> I've tested this a few days ago in order to test the gcc6 patches for
> Cole and it works fine here? What errors did you see?

I found out the problem I was experiencing was with the $PATH variable. It did not contain the path to my sparc compiler. I would think OpenBIOS would report a missing compiler with a direct message about the issue. Instead it displayed a message that kind of confused me. This:

ERROR: no sparc sparc64 cross-compiler found ! 

It didn't make sense to me because I was trying to build the 32-bit sparc binary using this command-line:

CROSS_COMPILE=sparc-elf- ./config/scripts/switch-arch sparc32

After fixing the $PATH variable I was able to make the binary. 

Maybe this message could be fixed by adding a slash:

ERROR: no sparc/sparc64 cross-compiler found!