[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

[Nick Couchman]

> 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
> 
> 
> Happy holidays,
> 
> Mark.

Awesome, Mark - this is great news!  Thanks for all the work put into this!

-Nick



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