Re: [LinuxBIOS] Solaris

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Justin Cormack  [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..

Stefan