20 Mar
2010
20 Mar
'10
8:19 p.m.
On 2010-3-20 3:03 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
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Okay - in that case I'll rip it out. Just as a side question, what could I use to test that I haven't broken the ELF code in QEMU? I'm guessing I could test using something like the FC12 bootable CD for each platform (x86, PPC and SPARC64) to check?
I think SILO and BSD loaders are still using a.out and Solaris uses FCode.
Solaris uses FCode for the primary booter (blocks 1-15), and ELF for the secondary booter (/platform/xxx file read in by primary booter). Both call back into Openboot code for I/O, until reaching "lights out", when Solaris takes over the trap table and runs its own drivers.