[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Apr 2 18:21:07 CEST 2010


On 4/2/10 4:23 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland 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
>
Great work! Thank you!

Stefan

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