Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-26 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 24/08/13 18:46, Andreas Färber wrote: Am 21.08.2013 20:52, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: On 21/08/13 18:54, Andreas Färber wrote: Shouldn't this blob come in the same patch as an update to some git module, so that we keep track of the sources used to build the blob? I concur. Independent of

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-24 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 21.08.2013 20:52, schrieb Mark Cave-Ayland: > On 21/08/13 18:54, Andreas Färber wrote: > >>> Shouldn't this blob come in the same patch as an update to some >>> git module, so that we keep track of the sources used to build >>> the blob? >> >> I concur. Independent of how to order the .gitmodul

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-24 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 21/08/13 18:06, Peter Maydell wrote: Okay so in that case what is the best way to manage to process? If both this and the follow-up patchset are committed first without the associated FCode ROM images then qemu-system-sparc will be broken until the main OpenBIOS images are updated because (qu

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 21/08/13 18:54, Andreas Färber wrote: Shouldn't this blob come in the same patch as an update to some git module, so that we keep track of the sources used to build the blob? I concur. Independent of how to order the .gitmodules update, this patch is missing Makefile support to actually cop

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-21 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 21.08.2013 00:41, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 20 August 2013 23:25, Mark Cave-Ayland > wrote: >> Upstream OpenBIOS now implements SBus probing in order to determine the >> contents of a physical bus slot, which is required to allow OpenBIOS to >> identify the framebuffer without help from the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-21 Thread Peter Maydell
On 21 August 2013 17:29, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 21/08/13 16:34, Peter Maydell wrote: > >>> Unfortunately the OpenBIOS repository is still based in SVN :( There is >>> a >>> git-svn mirror on git.qemu.org, but currently it needs to be manually >>> updated and so is generally not particularly

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 21/08/13 16:34, Peter Maydell wrote: Unfortunately the OpenBIOS repository is still based in SVN :( There is a git-svn mirror on git.qemu.org, but currently it needs to be manually updated and so is generally not particularly helpful. For the 1.6 release I got Anthony to manually update the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-21 Thread Peter Maydell
On 21 August 2013 15:44, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > On 20/08/13 23:41, Peter Maydell wrote: >> Shouldn't this blob come in the same patch as an update to some >> git module, so that we keep track of the sources used to build >> the blob? > Unfortunately the OpenBIOS repository is still based in SV

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
On 20/08/13 23:41, Peter Maydell wrote: On 20 August 2013 23:25, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: Upstream OpenBIOS now implements SBus probing in order to determine the contents of a physical bus slot, which is required to allow OpenBIOS to identify the framebuffer without help from the fw_cfg interfa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-20 Thread Peter Maydell
On 20 August 2013 23:25, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > Upstream OpenBIOS now implements SBus probing in order to determine the > contents of a physical bus slot, which is required to allow OpenBIOS to > identify the framebuffer without help from the fw_cfg interface. > > SBus probing works by detectin

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sun4m: Add FCode ROM for TCX framebuffer

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Cave-Ayland
Upstream OpenBIOS now implements SBus probing in order to determine the contents of a physical bus slot, which is required to allow OpenBIOS to identify the framebuffer without help from the fw_cfg interface. SBus probing works by detecting the presence of an FCode program (effectively tokenised F