[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

Artyom Tarasenko atar4qemu at googlemail.com
Fri Apr 2 22:13:10 CEST 2010


Hi Mark,

> 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

Wow! Hats off! Congratulations!


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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc32 under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/



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