[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/5] sparc64: implement OF memory manager

[Igor Kovalenko]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Mark
Cave-Ayland<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Igor Kovalenko wrote:
>
>> This patch series implement OF memory manager.
>
> Hi Igor,
>
> This looks like a great patchset - the lack of the OF memory manager for
> Sparc64 was preventing me from working further on OpenBIOS to get it to try
> and load a Solaris kernel under Qemu :)

Cool :)

If you have good document describing what solaris boot loader
expects from open firmware, that would really help. I have
of1275.pdf and it's 32bit and 64bit bindings, and these do not
seem to cover what "convey other information to client image"
really means.

> I haven't had as much spare time to work on this as I would have hoped,
> however I've been working on adding some debug support to OpenBIOS to try
> and help me trace through various parts of the Fcode (with limited success).
> Once I get something working, I'll try out your patches and see if I can get
> the kernel loading from disk...

There are still issues with qemu emulation code, but we are
making some progress :) My plan is to first have ultrasparcIIi
qemu emulation booting linux to userspace using openbios
sparc64 prom.

-- 
Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko