Re: NetBSD/sparc running on qemu

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:06:55AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > with the fixes I commited yesterday to pkgsrc's qemu package,  
> > > NetBSD/sparc
> > > 5.0.1 is running fine in qemu-system-sparc, with disk and network
> > > access. The speed is really good, probably faster than some of the  
> > > sun4m
> > > we support. With the just-commited apc(4) driver enabled, host CPU  
> > > useage is
> > > very low when the virtual machine is idle.
> >
> > Oh, good news. We should update ports/emulator pages..
> >
> > BTW, IIRC -current has some problem on qemu around TCX wscons driver.
>
> I should have mentionned I tested only with a serial console.
> But qemu did offer a tcx device anyway, and NetBSD 5.0.1 didn't
> have troubles attaching it.

IIRC the NetBSD 5 tcx driver only talks to the DAC and uses firmware  
calls for output. In -current it actually uses the 'blitter'.

have fun
Michael

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