[OpenBIOS] Possible MMU translation bug?

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Fri Apr 16 18:20:32 CEST 2010


On 2010-4-16 12:17 PM, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> On 4/16/10 12:24 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>    
>> call-method SUNW,retain: exception -21
>>      
> I've never seen this in any standard so far, but Linux seems to know
> about it, too:
>    

It's a Sun-proprietary interface. It's a kludge to keep memory across 
reboots (for things like disk change logs) that aren't clobbered by 
either OpenBoot or Solaris restart. There should be some FWARC cases on 
it, I don't know if they have been made public.




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