Re: Tadpole or other non sun machines?

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:58 AM, der Mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm working on the SPARC emulation in qemu and have already got it
>>> to boot some Solaris versions.
>
>>> To improve it further I'd like to test it with Tadpole (or any other
>>> rare) firmware.
>
>>> If someone has a Tadpole and a serial cable, getting the OBP
>>> firmware over it is pretty easy.  No screw driver/soldering is
>>> required.
>
>> I have one - tell me what I need to do...
>
> Same here.

Have tried to contact you, but your MTA doesn't accept mails from googlemail.

> Mine is a 3GX, and I'd be interested in learning how to
> dump the firmware even if you don't need it.  (I assume it's just a
> question of using map-page to map it and then dumping it out with c@
> and ., but that still leaves a lot of stuff unspecified.)

Yes, it's just map-pages + c@, nothing fancy. But before map-pages we
need to confirm that the addresses are the same as on sun machines.
Can you please

setenv diag-switch? true
reset

and send me the screen log?

Artyom


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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/