[OpenBIOS] Sparc32 progress

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri May 5 01:24:33 CEST 2006


* Blue Swirl <blueswir1 at hotmail.com> [060504 21:44]:
> Adding device aliases helped a bit, now the system attempts to load a 
> kernel!
 
Very cool! You're making really good progress! I've commited your patch
to r4 in svn.

> qemu-system-sparc -L . -kernel /dev/null -nographic
> boot arg = 0x0
> 
> Checksum invalid (ba854bc8)!

Can you check what the checksum really is 

> Not a bootable ELF image
> 
> Because IO is unimplemented, the ELF image is not right.

You seem to have some stuff in there that looks pretty complete..

> Now the device tree is flawless, including correct SCSI device names:
> 2 > show-devs
> -2c3700 /
> 
> I think the next step is to make real disk I/O (which needs DVMA 
> allocation).

what's dvma?

Stefan




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