[OpenBIOS] Starting QEMU with OpenBIOS for Sparc32

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Armistead, Jason <Jason.Armistead at otis.com> [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

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