openbios-sparc is now available. However it is in unifse so qemu-
system-sparc cannot depend on it. We could add a Suggests if people
want that.
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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Title:
openbios-sparc64 missing
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Thanks Serge,
I tried loading a sparc64 class machine before loading your package with
the Debian package still installed and got to the OpenBIOS screen. After
I installed it, the same qemu-system-sparc64 invocation just remained a
dark black screen. The qemu-system-sparc binary seems to get me to
The openbios-sparc package is built in ppa:serge-hallyn/crossc. You can
install from there if you need it for qemu-system-sparc. I was able to
start a debian squeeze image on a 1G SS-10 VM with that.
Since we have no ubuntu images for sparc, there is still a question of
whether this package will
> Aha, interesting. In fact, it would seem that you need cross-compilers
> in any case since there are no sparc64 buildd nodes, if I am
> understanding this correctly. ie: under Debian, fixing either one might
> work but under Ubuntu, cross compiling is the only real solution.
Good point :) I kee
Aha, interesting. In fact, it would seem that you need cross-compilers
in any case since there are no sparc64 buildd nodes, if I am
understanding this correctly. ie: under Debian, fixing either one might
work but under Ubuntu, cross compiling is the only real solution.
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For now if you need that bios, you will indeed need to get it from
Debian.
In order to ship (and depend on) the openbios-sparc, or openbios-ppc for
that matter, we will need to either have bug 217427 fixed, or have
cross-compilers to build the packages.
** Changed in: qemu (Ubuntu)
Status:
I should also add that under Debian there is an openbios-sparc package
which contains the actual openbios image:
$ ls -la /usr/share/{qemu,openbios}/openbios-sparc64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 737264 Jun 9 2012 /usr/share/openbios/openbios-sparc64
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jan 14 03:37 /usr/sha
