Re: port-sparc/14864: sparc tape-boot seems broken on 1.5.2

[Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/14864; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-sparc/14864: sparc tape-boot seems broken on 1.5.2
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2023 14:38:28 +0200

 I just tried to reproduce this in emulation - the closest I was able
 to get up and running was an emulated SPARCStation 2 in TME with OBP
 2.9, and there I was successfully able to boot a 1.5.2 tapeboot1 +
 tapeboot2 + miniroot.fs (I stopped there and didn't go through a full
 installation).
 
 I don't think TME supports the SPARCStation 5 - Qemu does, but AFAIK
 doesn't emulate tape drives so I'm not sure if this can easily be
 tested there.
 
 TME crashes if I swap out the OBP 2.9 ROM with a 2.15 ROM from Qemu -
 not sure how specific this is to the machine and if it crashes because
 it's now "running on a SS 2".
 
 I might play around a *bit* more with this over the next few days.
 But off-list, Matthias told me that he no longer has access to the
 machine so I have my doubts if this even can be reproduced anymore
 these days...
 
 
   Harold