[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Fri Apr 2 17:50:00 CEST 2010


On 4/2/10, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  After all the refactoring work, I got around to re-working the init-program
> and go words and plugging the new unified ELF loader into the SPARC64 build.
>
>  And the result? As of SVN r730, I'm pleased to report that the Solaris
> kernel starts to execute on my Milax test ISO. After typing "go" to execute
> the loaded ELF image manually, I see a twirly baton rotating on the console
> for about 0.5s before the inevitable segfault. So it's a small step, but
> still a great milestone for the OpenBIOS project :D

Nice work, there was a lot of cleaning up to do. How do you get the
kernel loaded manually?



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