Thank you for the drawterm suggestion. It continues to be a possible alternative, if I fail to get 9front graphics working directly.

But I would first have to get 9front without graphics working, and then start on drawterm.

Since the x86 alternative already has most of graphics out-of-the-box, I consider it to be a better starting point.

Best Wishes,

bengt

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024 at 02:40, Jacob Moody <moody@posixcafe.org> wrote:

On 3/23/24 10:51, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have tried to start 9front-10277.arm64.qcow2 with this command(*), but it only pop-up the new little window with qemu command line that I haver seen so many times before.
> It could be that I have a too old u-boot.bin. To get a newer I have installed u-boot-tools, which gave me the command mkimage, but no u-boot.bin. I cloned u-boot.git, but it fails to compile since it can not fin OPENSSL (which I have and use for other things).
> Since the arm64.qcow2 is without graphics, which I want, it is not worth spending more time on 9front-10277.arm64.qcow2.

Yes looks like your u-boot.bin is too old. I don't use a mac so I can't suggest what to do to fix
your issue with compiling it.

As stated multiple times by myself and by some others here you may use the arm64 virtual machine in combination
with drawterm to provide a graphical interface.

Bengt Kleberg

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