Did some clean-ups and submitted a minimal patch set upstream.
I omitted the SparcStation-20 support for now, which made the patches for SparcStation-5 OBP cleaner, so there is a chance they will be accepted (my last patch was silently ignored for a month just because it was badly formatted, that's why I say "a chance", not "a good chance").
This means that if the patches will be accepted for the qemu 0.12, it will be possible to boot Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris 2.6 kernels in the vanilla qemu with SS-5 OBP. I'll write a qemu/Solaris/sparc how-to.
No support for SS-20 (and SunOS 4.1.4 / Solaris 1.1.2) yet, as it is more buggy, and less requested. If someone thinks the support for SunOS 4.1.4 is important, feel free to write me. If you ever debugged a SunOS 4.x kernel (or have tools for doing it), please write me.
Actually i would love to have sunos 4.1.4 booting. I use a legacy compiler and about once every three-six months we loose a disk due to the age and need to scrounge around for a replacement.
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I thought it was possible to run all the SunOS applications under Solaris 2+.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any diagnostic utilities for SunOS 4.1.4? I have an install cdrom, but it doesn't even seem to have ability to boot with 'kadb'. Does your install have the kadb?
I, too, think that most any SunOS 4 app should work under Solaris, even a compiler. Our legacy apps are also SunOS4, but they work fine under Solaris. Perhaps it would require more libraries than are normally supplied, though, so it could take some tinkering to get enough components into the environment for it to work?
ReplyDeletePS Vanilla qemu still doesn't seem to see SCSI (or perhaps not any SBUS devices). Here's my current output:
qemu/sparc-softmmu/qemu-system-sparc -name r2d2 -bios ./ss5-170.bin -drive file=/internal/virt/r2d2.qcow2,if=scsi -net nic,macaddr=52:54:00:02:01:01 -nographic
Warning: vlan 0 is not connected to host network
Power-ON Reset
MB86907 POST 2.2.3 03SEP96
Probing system memory: 32 32 32 32 0 0 0 0
Config = 880000AA
0Kb ecache detected
initializing TLB
initializing cache
Allocating SRMMU Context Table
Setting SRMMU Context Register
Setting SRMMU Context Table Pointer Register
Allocating SRMMU Level 1 Table
Mapping RAM
Mapping ROM
ttya initialized
Probing Memory Bank #0 32 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #1 32 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #2 32 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #3 32 Megabytes
Probing Memory Bank #4 Data Access Error
ok probe-scsi
ok probe-scsi-all
ok boot disk0
Data Access Error
ok boot disk0
Initializing 128 megs of memory at addr 0Level 14 Interrupt
ok boot disk3
Initializing 128 megs of memory at addr 0Level 14 Interrupt
ok boot disk
Initializing 128 megs of memory at addr 0Level 14 Interrupt
ok
I probably should have included test-all output:
ReplyDeletetest-all
Testing /obio/SUNW,fdtwo@0,400000
Testing floppy disk system. A formatted disk should be in the drive.
Selftest failed. Return code = -2977792
After being inspired by your Forth post from August 22, I found that "5 probe-slot" on a SS-5 qemu will make the SCSI and ethernet devices visible to OpenBoot. Show-devs and show-sbus look like they see the devices, but a probe-scsi gives me "Missing initiator id". Naturally, it still won't boot.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's not a missing patch but a little Forth magic (perhaps similar to your August 22 post but with different addresses for SS-5?)...
Brent, sorry, you'll need one more patch (not scsi-related though). Working on it.
ReplyDeleteBrent, I wrote a OBP/Solaris/sparc mini how-to. To get you going: the only thing which is missing for the OBP loading is -m 256. I don't have any qcow images, so I can not test whether they are better or worse than iso. Let me know.
ReplyDeleteYou can also try playing with the -cpu switch, but I'm afraid the number of sun4m CPUs recognized by a standard OBP is quite low.
The patch I mentioned before: it turned out vanilla qemu still can not boot Solaris beyond kernel. Maybe you are more lucky with the pre-installed hd images (btw, are they from SS-5? SS-10/20 ones may not necessarily be compatible with SS-5).
The problem is (at least) one poorly documented MMU mode. My hack for it is definitely bad, tonight I'll some tests on a real SS which would help to understand why does the hack perform better than the current implementation in qemu.
Forgot to mention, test-all makes currently a little sense. The floppy is broken (and is not good documented, and no one wants to mess with it), so the very first test will always fail.
ReplyDeletetest scsi is not expected to work either: esp test registers are not implemented.
probe-scsi should show connected devices though.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteSunOS 4.1.4 can be boot the same way as Solaris 2.5.1- now. It would be interesting to know, whether a pre-installed HDD image would do better than the install CD.