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1.. _Sparc32-System-emulator:
2
3Sparc32 System emulator
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5
6Use the executable ``qemu-system-sparc`` to simulate the following Sun4m
7architecture machines:
8
9-  SPARCstation 4
10
11-  SPARCstation 5
12
13-  SPARCstation 10
14
15-  SPARCstation 20
16
17-  SPARCserver 600MP
18
19-  SPARCstation LX
20
21-  SPARCstation Voyager
22
23-  SPARCclassic
24
25-  SPARCbook
26
27The emulation is somewhat complete. SMP up to 16 CPUs is supported, but
28Linux limits the number of usable CPUs to 4.
29
30The list of available CPUs can be viewed by starting QEMU with ``-cpu help``.
31Optional boolean features can be added with a "+" in front of the feature name,
32or disabled with a "-" in front of the name, for example
33``-cpu TI-SuperSparc-II,+float128``.
34
35QEMU emulates the following sun4m peripherals:
36
37-  IOMMU
38
39-  TCX or cgthree Frame buffer
40
41-  Lance (Am7990) Ethernet
42
43-  Non Volatile RAM M48T02/M48T08
44
45-  Slave I/O: timers, interrupt controllers, Zilog serial ports,
46   :ref:`keyboard` and power/reset logic
47
48-  ESP SCSI controller with hard disk and CD-ROM support
49
50-  Floppy drive (not on SS-600MP)
51
52-  CS4231 sound device (only on SS-5, not working yet)
53
54The number of peripherals is fixed in the architecture. Maximum memory
55size depends on the machine type, for SS-5 it is 256MB and for others
562047MB.
57
58Since version 0.8.2, QEMU uses OpenBIOS https://www.openbios.org/.
59OpenBIOS is a free (GPL v2) portable firmware implementation. The goal
60is to implement a 100% IEEE 1275-1994 (referred to as Open Firmware)
61compliant firmware.
62
63Please note that currently older Solaris kernels don't work; this is probably
64due to interface issues between OpenBIOS and Solaris.
65