[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
> <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> 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.