On 6 Aug 2005, at 13:10, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Justin Cormack justin@street-vision.com [050616 13:25]:
Solaris on x86/amd64 does not contain any open firmware support. So while using OpenBIOS to boot Solaris might be possible (if they don't do legacy bios calls), it won't benefit from OpenBIOS' IEEE1275 compliance. This might change with OpenSolaris though--
There are some odd BIOS based interfaces in the x86 code (though at some point it just builds a structure that looks like what comes out of the Sun PROMS). Probably easiest to just port the Open Firmware support from the Sparc part of the tree as its all there though.
definitely the cleanest solution. Volunteers? I can help on the OpenBIOS side..
Hopefully will have some time in a few weeks to look at it, and have some spare old Opteron boards I could use. Will try to get them up and running Linuxbios and booting Linux as a first step shortly.
Justin