Re: [OpenBIOS] Starting QEMU with OpenBIOS for Sparc32

[Armistead, Jason]

Stefan wrote:
> Generally you can start with using http://openbios.org/~stepan/proll.elf
> as a replacement for the default proll.elf file that came with qemu.

Do you keep this proll.elf (which is really OpenBIOS) up to date with the
latest SVN snapshot ?

If not, maybe you could generate a proll-svn.elf file which contains the
latest from SVN for people without access to the cross tools (and leave the
proll.elf as the latest "stable" version)
> NOTE: This one only works with -nographic, as the framebuffer handling
> code keeps most OS boots hanging.

On Windows, starting QEMU with -nographic is not possible because it keeps
on saying

qemu: could not open monitor device 'stdio'

I'm guessing it works OK on Linux and Unix QEMU, but what to do on Windows
where the concept of "stdio" is not as well defined ?  Is there a workaroumd
/ hack for QEMU or something I need to configure on Windows ?

Thanks

Jason

Starting QEMU with OpenBIOS for Sparc32

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Armistead, Jason  [060607 02:24]:
> Stefan wrote:
> > Generally you can start with using http://openbios.org/~stepan/proll.elf
> > as a replacement for the default proll.elf file that came with qemu.
>
> Do you keep this proll.elf (which is really OpenBIOS) up to date with the
> latest SVN snapshot ?

I'll keep it updated manually until its integrated in qemu.
> > NOTE: This one only works with -nographic, as the framebuffer handling
> > code keeps most OS boots hanging.
>
> On Windows, starting QEMU with -nographic is not possible because it keeps
> on saying
> qemu: could not open monitor device 'stdio'

Ok, the latest version works fine without -nographic. you need to
specify "console=tty1" to boot linux and it still chokes on the other
OSes (though a lot later now, see my status mail)

Stefan