Sunday, December 9, 2018

The splash screen is done, next level

After some improvements to the cgsix emulation the boot splash screen is finally looking good:

cgsix under sun4m
On the screen above there is only one thing missing: the cursor. Unlike cgthree, the cgsix graphic adapter has hardware cursor, which I haven't implemented yet.

Well, the hardware cursor is not the only thing which is not yet implemented in general. The next screen is not as good:

The freedom statue is looking at Solaris install process

/stay tuned

3 comments:

veganman said...

thank you, keep us posted.

IdeaFix said...

Hi. Is it possible to boot solaris 2.6 with qemu-system-sparc64? I am trying to boot Solaris 2.6 HW 5/98, but get this:

OpenBIOS for Sparc64
Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
kernel cmdline
CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi
UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.1 built on Oct 28 2019 17:08
Type 'help' for detailed information
Trying cdrom:f...
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image

Loading FCode image...
Loaded 6344 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
Evaluating FCode...
open isn't unique.
?go:
byte-load: exception caught!

You can use russian in your answer.

atar said...

Not in the upstream version. I've build some version for customers some time back, but hadn't pushed them into upstream.