Re: [OpenBIOS] [PATCH 6/6] SPARC64: add model to hwdefs array and set it to a suitable value

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 28/07/14 15:33, Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 10:44 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > At the moment we are probably closest to an Ultra250 with an UltraSPARC-IIi
> > processor and PCI bus.
>
> Are we? I thought QEMU was targeting Ultra-5. Both Ultra-5 and
> Enterpise-250 have different serial ports, but Enterprise-250 may have
> multiple CPUs, whereas QEMU can't.

Yeah, it was something to do with the serial ports, although I suspect 
given the hacking over the past weekend that Ultra5 is probably still 
valid now.
> > This property is checked by NetBSD during boot.
>
> Does it have to be something existing? Since QEMU doesn't exactly
> match any real machine, I'd prefer something like "QEMU,sun4u", but
> maybe it's personal.

I'm not exactly sure? But sure, at the very least we should have 
something there to prevent errors on the console during boot.


ATB,

Mark.

[PATCH 6/6] SPARC64: add model to hwdefs array and set it to a suitable value

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 28/07/14 17:33, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > > This property is checked by NetBSD during boot.
> >
> > Does it have to be something existing? Since QEMU doesn't exactly
> > match any real machine, I'd prefer something like "QEMU,sun4u", but
> > maybe it's personal.
>
> I'm not exactly sure? But sure, at the very least we should have
> something there to prevent errors on the console during boot.

FWIW I've just committed the patchset minus this one particular patch as 
it seems NetBSD will continue without it (so we can figure out what we 
would prefer to do a bit later!).


ATB,

Mark.