[OpenBIOS] Sparc64 OpenBIOS

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Nick Couchman wrote:

> Hmmm...not really working for me.  I don't know that I'm actually at the "ok" prompt - I see the word "ok" output to the screen, but the prompt is actually "0> " and not okay.  When I try "see do-boot", I get "do-boot: undefined word."  Furthermore, almost none of the other commands work, either - get-bootdev, load-pkg, etc., all return "undefined word."
> 
> Just to make sure I didn't leave anything out before, I'm running qemu-system-sparc64 (from the Qemu git repo), using OpenBIOS built from the svn repository.  If there's something else I should be trying, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick

Hi Nick,

By default the OpenBIOS fcode evaluator creates headerless words, and so 
they won't appear in any wordlists which are visible to the system.

In order to make the words visible, you need to open up 
forth/admin/nvram.fs and change the value of fcode-debug? from false to 
true in the NVRAM variables section. If you then rebuild OpenBIOS, the 
words generated by the Fcode evaluator will then show up in the relevant 
package when you type "words".

Incidentally, I see that Blue Swirl has also committed the Forth source 
debugger over the weekend, so you should be able to do "debug do-boot" 
followed by "do-boot" and then step through the process to see where it 
fails.


HTH,

Mark.

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