[OpenBIOS] Solaris anyone?

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Mon Jun 6 21:54:39 CEST 2011


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> Hmmm it looks from reading the source code that QEMU doesn't actually 
> implement a proper audio device for SS-5 at all but merely provides a 
> dummy device with an empty mapped region. In that case it may be 
> possible to provide a simple mapping in OpenBIOS to match the one in 
> QEMU which may be enough to persuade Solaris to boot.

Ugh. I recall that audio chip being non-trivial...

It might be worth deleting that audio device from the device tree and 
see if Solaris really does get further.




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