Re: [OpenBIOS] Hello Solaris :)

[Nathan Kunkee]

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> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 21:52:12 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [OpenBIOS] Hello Solaris :)
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> On 10/3/10 2:02 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > For those of you interested in the progress of Solaris on OpenBIOS,
> > I'm pleased to report the following output from SVN trunk (r886) with
> > the attached patch applied (this is because the OpenSolaris 10 kernel
> > seems to want quite a lot of run-time memory - more on this later):
> >
> > Solaris 9 installation CD:
> >
> > OpenBIOS for Sparc64
> > Configuration device id QEMU version 1 machine id 0
> > kernel cmdline
> > CPUs: 1 x SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi
> > UUID: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
> > Welcome to OpenBIOS v1.0 built on Oct 3 2010 20:40
> > Type 'help' for detailed information
> > Trying cdrom:f...
> > Not a bootable ELF image
> > Not a bootable a.out image
> >
> > Loading FCode image...
> > Loaded 5936 bytes
> > entry point is 0x4000
> > open isn't unique.
> >
> > Jumping to entry point 0000000000100000 for type 0000000000000001...
> > switching to new context: entry point 0x100000 stack 0x00000000ffe06b49
> > warning:interpret: exception -13 caught
> > SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic 64-bit
> > Copyright 1983-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
> > Use is subject to license terms.
>
> This is awesome news, Mark! Thank you for your efforts!
>
> Stefan

I'll second this! Exciting!

I'm not sure about the license overlap, reading CDDL to write GPL, but the bootloader source code is here:
http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/psm/stand/bootblks/

Nathan