[OpenBIOS] sparc32 openbios - passing nvram options

[Blue Swirl]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Dmitriy Kargapolov
<dmitriy.kargapolov at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Dmitriy Kargapolov
>> <dmitriy.kargapolov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > I tried to install netbsd 5.0.2 to qemu-system-sparc (which uses
>> > openbios).
>> > Boot from cdrom image and installation passed with no problems.
>> > But I was not able to boot from hdd. All the -boot, -prom-env options
>> > kind
>> > of ignored by qemu-system-sparc...
>> > All tries end up with booting fromn cdrom (if presented).
>> >
>> > Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 64
>> > UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
>> > CPUs: 1 x TI,TMS390Z55
>> > invalid nvram partition length
>> > nvram error detected, zapping pram
>>
>> This looks like a very old version. Please use a recent one like SVN
>> HEAD, or the one shipped with QEMU (currently r859 in git HEAD).
>>
> Yes, I see Fedora-based packages (which I tried to use) are too old.
> To compile openbios from the repo I need sparc cross-compiler, -binutils,
> -glibc...
> I found no precompiled cross-tools for sparc in Fedora...
> What would be your recommendation regarding cross-tools version, what do you
> use to compile openbios and on what host platform?
> Thank you.

$ sparc-elf-ld -V
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.18
  Supported emulations:
   elf32_sparc
   elf64_sparc
$ sparc-elf-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: sparc-elf
Configured with: ../configure --enable-targets=sparc-elf,sparc64-elf
--disable-nls --disable-threads --enable-multilib --enable-languages=c
--with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --disable-libssp --target=sparc-elf
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.2.4

IIRC GCC configure line was almost identical to binutils line.

Optionally also:
$ sparc-elf-gdb -v
GNU gdb 6.8
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu --target=sparc-elf".

There's no need for glibc, OpenBIOS is a fully freestanding target.

I'd also recommend using QEMU from git HEAD.