Re: booting qemu sparc gives black window

[David Griffith <dave@661.org>]

On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> On 18/05/16 11:01, David Griffith wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> >
> > > On 18/05/16 10:47, David Griffith wrote:
> > >
> > > > > > Debian 8 installs QEMU 2.5.  I upgraded to 2.6 with
> > > > > > jessie-backports to
> > > > > > no avail.  None of your suggestions worked at all.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hmmm I wonder if what you're seeing is a framebuffer issue with GTK? Do
> > > > > you see any of the GTK menus at all around the black screen? What
> > > > > happens if you try and connect to the framebuffer over VNC, e.g. adding
> > > > > -vnc :1 to the command line and using a VNC client pointed at
> > > > > localhost?
> > > >
> > > > No menus at all.  The VNC client window is also black.
> > >
> > > The only other thing I can think of is that the Debian packages don't
> > > include the QEMU,cgthree.bin ROM file required to initialise the display
> > > in the device tree. Can you see both this file, QEMU,tcx.bin and
> > > openbios-sparc32 in /usr/share/qemu for your installation?
> >
> > I see only openbios-sparc32, not QEMU,tcx.bin or QEMU,cgthree.bin.
>
> Ahhh so it appears that Debian have broken QEMU packages for
> qemu-system-sparc :(
>
> You should be able to grab the binaries directly from QEMU git at
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=tree;f=pc-bios;h=1cbe7b99f5fd330fab98804444b0d06f0c029b00;hb=a257c741491ff1c3c192d13a89c136dd6401c54d
> - simply drop both files into /usr/share/qemu manually and see if that
> helps.

No change.  Still black.

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David Griffith
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