[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

>> Unmodified Solaris 2.6 doesn't get this far, I guess due to the 80
>> chars limitation. Will check the patched version later.
> 
> Hmmmm this looks more promising. If you compile with DEBUG_CIF enabled 
> in libopenbios/client.c and try again then you can see all the calls 
> into OpenBIOS, and hence the device nodes and properties that are being 
> accessed. This will probably tell you why you are getting the null path 
> error. It's interesting to note that type 0x5 is an a.out as opposed to 
> an ELF binary.

Actually, I was totally wrong. SPARC32 uses the romvec interface, so 
instead have a look at compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBP set in 
arch/sparc32/romvec.c to see what the client is trying to do.


HTH,

Mark.

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