The last few months have been mostly a matter of making some small, steady progress. This blog is intended as my reference notes, so here's the notes:
1)
The tap stuff I wrote about seems to mostly be irrelevent. After adding a script[1] to /etc, when using qemu I'm able to just do:
-net nic -net tap
And the tap interface "just works".
Simh/vax seems to work too -somewhat. Still ironing that out.
2)
Qemu has the -saveconfig and -readconfig options. They save a hell of a lot of typing!
3)
I saved the following off of the debian/sparc page for the sake of reference:
As mentioned earlier, the Debian SPARC64 port only supports 64 bit SPARC processors which correspond to the following sun4 architectures / processors.That's really about it. PCem has made great progress, but because reasons I haven't played with it much. Neozeed has compiled a version with networking for the latest version ...it doens't compile on Linux, and using it on wine is flaky.
sun4u
SPARC64 VI
SPARC64 VII
SPARC64 VII+
UltraSPARC I
UltraSPARC II
UltraSPARC III
UltraSPARC IV
sun4u1
UltraSPARC II
sun4us
SPARC64V
SPARC64V+
sun4v
SPARC T3
SPARC T4
SPARC T5
SPARC T7
SPARC64 X
SPARC64 X+
UltraSPARC T1
UltraSPARC T2
UltraSPARC T2+
The Debian SPARC64 port is stable on most machines using these architectures / processors, but not all of them. Kernel support for the hardware found in these machines is the biggest factor in whether a particular machine is supported or not.
I guess it's simh/qemu/virtualbox for now!
[1](/etc/qemu-ifup):
#!/bin/sh
#
# Copyright IBM, Corp. 2010
#
# Authors:
# Anthony Liguori
#
# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2. See
# the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
# Set to the name of your bridge
BRIDGE=br0
# Network information
NETWORK=192.168.53.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.53.1
DHCPRANGE=192.168.53.2,192.168.53.254
# Optionally parameters to enable PXE support
TFTPROOT=
BOOTP=
do_brctl() {
brctl "$@"
}
do_ifconfig() {
ifconfig "$@"
}
do_dd() {
dd "$@"
}
do_iptables_restore() {
iptables-restore "$@"
}
do_dnsmasq() {
dnsmasq "$@"
}
check_bridge() {
if do_brctl show | grep "^$1" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null; then
return 1
else
return 0
fi
}
create_bridge() {
do_brctl addbr "$1"
do_brctl stp "$1" off
do_brctl setfd "$1" 0
do_ifconfig "$1" "$GATEWAY" netmask "$NETMASK" up
}
enable_ip_forward() {
echo 1 | do_dd of=/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > /dev/null
}
add_filter_rules() {
do_iptables_restore <
*nat
:PREROUTING ACCEPT [61:9671]
:POSTROUTING ACCEPT [121:7499]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [132:8691]
-A POSTROUTING -s $NETWORK/$NETMASK -j MASQUERADE
COMMIT
# Completed on Fri Aug 24 15:20:25 2007
# Generated by iptables-save v1.3.6 on Fri Aug 24 15:20:25 2007
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [1453:976046]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [1605:194911]
-A INPUT -i $BRIDGE -p tcp -m tcp --dport 67 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i $BRIDGE -p udp -m udp --dport 67 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i $BRIDGE -p tcp -m tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -i $BRIDGE -p udp -m udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -i $1 -o $1 -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -s $NETWORK/$NETMASK -i $BRIDGE -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -d $NETWORK/$NETMASK -o $BRIDGE -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
-A FORWARD -o $BRIDGE -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
-A FORWARD -i $BRIDGE -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
COMMIT
# Completed on Fri Aug 24 15:20:25 2007
EOF
}
start_dnsmasq() {
do_dnsmasq \
--strict-order \
--except-interface=lo \
--interface=$BRIDGE \
--listen-address=$GATEWAY \
--bind-interfaces \
--dhcp-range=$DHCPRANGE \
--conf-file="" \
--pid-file=/var/run/qemu-dnsmasq-$BRIDGE.pid \
--dhcp-leasefile=/var/run/qemu-dnsmasq-$BRIDGE.leases \
--dhcp-no-override \
${TFTPROOT:+"--enable-tftp"} \
${TFTPROOT:+"--tftp-root=$TFTPROOT"} \
${BOOTP:+"--dhcp-boot=$BOOTP"}
}
setup_bridge_nat() {
if check_bridge "$1" ; then
create_bridge "$1"
enable_ip_forward
add_filter_rules "$1"
start_dnsmasq "$1"
fi
}
setup_bridge_vlan() {
if check_bridge "$1" ; then
create_bridge "$1"
start_dnsmasq "$1"
fi
}
setup_bridge_nat "$BRIDGE"
if test "$1" ; then
do_ifconfig "$1" 0.0.0.0 up
do_brctl addif "$BRIDGE" "$1"
fi
