[OpenBIOS] [patch 0/6] sparc64 zero virtual memory page fixes

[Blue Swirl]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:16 AM, Igor
Kovalenko<igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This series do clean up several issues with openbios
> implementation trying to access zero virtual memory page.
>
> These changes are needed to prevent corrupting low memory
> space, albeit it is hard to verify without corresponding
> change to qemu which moves pci memory space above low 32bit
> space. Qemu part is not completed yet, so I use workaround
> for testing purposes. Change to package.fs dealing with NULL
> instance or package handles should be visible even witout
> changes to qemu (meaning more issues are probably there,
> to be fixed).
>
> I think timer handler currently fails into this problematic
> category as well, so related change postponing timer
> initialization is here as well. Since timer event handling
> requires trap table support, I added corresponding entry
> which does nothing but rearms timer at the moment.
>
> Signed-off-by: igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com

Thanks, applied 1/6 and 4/6.