Re: [Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions

2006-06-08 Thread Blue Swirl
Or just make qemu override certain sections of the nvram. I'm assuming there is some sort of structure to the nvram contents, or at least particular areas reserved for/commonly used by the BIOS and the OS. I think a problem with current approach as well as this, is that after system reset, th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions

2006-06-08 Thread Paul Brook
On Thursday 08 June 2006 15:31, Blue Swirl wrote: > >Is there any functionality, existing or planned or patched, to save Sparc > >NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions and reload it when QEMU starts up ? > > Currently nvram is used to pass some information from Qemu to BIOS. Some > other mechanism w

RE: [Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions

2006-06-08 Thread Blue Swirl
Is there any functionality, existing or planned or patched, to save Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions and reload it when QEMU starts up ? Currently nvram is used to pass some information from Qemu to BIOS. Some other mechanism would need to be implemented instead, if nvram contents ca

Re: [Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions

2006-06-08 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Armistead, Jason wrote: > Is there any functionality, existing or planned or patched, to save Sparc > NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions and reload it when QEMU starts up ? AFICT, no. > Obviously, writing a save / restore function for NVRAM is not terribly > difficult,

[Qemu-devel] Saving Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions

2006-06-08 Thread Armistead, Jason
Hi Is there any functionality, existing or planned or patched, to save Sparc NVRAM contents between QEMU sessions and reload it when QEMU starts up ? I'm working with some of the others on the OpenBIOS list to try and get QEMU / OpenBIOS to be able to boot SunOS 4 and Solaris It'd be nice if we