[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

[Blue Swirl]

On 4/3/10, Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>
>
> > I wonder if it's calling the special code for "call-method" and
> "interpret" instead? Are you able to send me a DEBUG_CIF output for your
> Linux kernel boot against r732 or point me towards how you are booting the
> kernel so I can try myself?
> >
>
>  Okay, I've been experimenting with the Debian Lenny SPARC netinst ISO at
> the same time and have found that what I suspected was the case. I've
> committed a fix at r733 which now gets the Milax boot further than the
> previous error (good), but now segfaults again (bad) :(
>
>  Interestingly enough, the Debian ISO now does a lot better. Partway through
> I get a lot of junk on the console, however if you leave it long enough then
> you get as far as this, although sometimes I get kernel panics before this
> point (I wonder if some MMU/CPU emulation is broken somewhere?)
>
>
>  [   22.433828] Console: switching to mono PROM 128x96
>  [   33.617482] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
>  [   33.674609] su: probe of ffe2d758 failed with error -12
>  [   33.766561] brd: module loaded
>  [   33.821616] loop: module loaded
>  [   33.863748] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
>  [   33.916168] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override
> with idebus=xx
>  [   34.003501] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
>  [   34.067544] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
>  [   34.128004] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
>  [   34.187412] TCP cubic registered
>  [   34.229665] NET: Registered protocol family 17
>  [   34.284422] registered taskstats version 1
>  [   34.335301] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
>  [   34.405875] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>  [   38.876574] List of all partitions:
>  [   38.921149] No filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext2
>  [   38.995468] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0)
>  [   39.076635] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom
>
>
>  Blue - can you confirm at your end?

My test are again like with r731, but Milax does not get as far as with r732.

The tests which had problems in r733 were Ubuntu 20080110.1, Aurora
2.0 and 2.1 install CDs.