[OpenBIOS] Solaris 9: failed boot with strange device names

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Tarl Neustaedter wrote:

> Boy, that message *is* pretty obscure.
> 
> The list he's referring to is one of three lists - physical memory, 
> virtual memory and free memory. He looks in the "memory" node for both 
> "reg" and "available" properties, and in the "virtual-memory" node for 
> the "available" property.
> 
> If he doesn't find any one of those three properties, he gets that 
> error. Look for init_memlists() in usr/src/uts/psm/.... in your stashed 
> Solaris source.

Oh, that's interesting. So this is what I currently see in OpenBIOS:

0 > cd /memory  ok
0 > .properties
name                      "memory"
device_type               "memory"
available                 -- 70 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 e6 80 0 0 0 
0 0 7 e6 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 80 0 0 0 0 7 e6 f2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 0 
0 7 e7 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 80 0 0 0 0 7 e7 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 0 0 7 
e7 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 80 0 0 0 0 7 e7 f2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 0
reg                       -- 10 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0
  ok
0 > cd /virtual-memory  ok
0 > .properties
name                      "virtual-memory"
available                 -- 90 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 fe 80 0 0 0 
0 0 7 fe 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 80 0 0 0 0 7 fe f2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 0 
0 7 ff 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 80 0 0 0 0 7 ff 72 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 e 0 0 0 0 0 7 
ff 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 f 80 0 0 0 0 7 ff f2 0 0 0 0 0 f6 0 e 0 0 0 0 0 fe 
80 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 ff f8 0 0 ff ff ff ff 0 7 ff ff
translations              -- 210 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 fe 80 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 0 7 fe 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 
7 fe 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 fe b0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 fe d0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
32 0 0 0 0 7 fe f0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff 30 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 
7 ff 50 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff 70 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
32 0 0 0 0 7 ff 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff b0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff d0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 
0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 7 ff f0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 0 0 0 
fe 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 0 0 0 0 ff d0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 0 0 0 0 ff d8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 74 
0 0 0 0 ff e0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 0 0 0 0 ff e8 0 0 0 0 
0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 0 0 0 0 ff f0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 
0 0 76
  ok
0 > cd /chosen  ok
0 > .properties
name                      "chosen"
stdin                     ffe88290
stdout                    ffe88430
memory                    ffe88838
mmu                       ffe880f8
display                   ffe87e30
keyboard                  ffe87fd0
bootargs                  ""
bootpath                  "cdrom:f"
  ok
0 > show-devs
ffe1d720 /
ffe1d8f8 /aliases
ffe1da20 /openprom (BootROM)
ffe27358 /openprom/client-services
ffe1dcd8 /options
ffe1ddb8 /chosen
ffe1df58 /builtin
ffe1e080 /builtin/console
ffe26e20 /packages
ffe28bf8 /packages/cmdline
ffe28e48 /packages/disk-label
ffe2a9a8 /packages/deblocker
ffe2afc0 /packages/grubfs-files
ffe2b3d0 /packages/sun-parts
ffe2b7e8 /packages/elf-loader
ffe30dc0 /packages/ufs-file-system
ffe29a28 /memory at 0,0 (memory)
ffe29b88 /virtual-memory
ffe2b948 /pci at 1fe,0 (pci)
ffe2c1b0 /pci at 1fe,0/pci at 1 (pci)
ffe2c868 /pci at 1fe,0/pci at 1,1 (pci)
ffe2cef8 /pci at 1fe,0/QEMU,VGA at 2 (display)
ffe2d6c0 /pci at 1fe,0/ebus at 3
ffe2ddc0 /pci at 1fe,0/ebus at 3/fdthree at 0 (block)
ffe2e308 /pci at 1fe,0/ebus at 3/su at 0,1 (serial)
ffe2e608 /pci at 1fe,0/ebus at 3/kb_ps2 at 0 (serial)
ffe2e938 /pci at 1fe,0/NE2000 at 4 (network)
ffe2ef20 /pci at 1fe,0/pci-ata at 5 (pci-ide)
ffe2f518 /pci at 1fe,0/pci-ata at 5/ide0 at 500 (ide)
ffe2f7b0 /pci at 1fe,0/pci-ata at 5/ide1 at 600 (ide)
ffe2fa48 /pci at 1fe,0/pci-ata at 5/ide1 at 600/cdrom at 0 (block)
ffe300d0 /SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi (cpu)
ffe307b8 /SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi/mmu
  ok
0 > ffe88838 ihandle>phandle u. ffe29a28  ok
0 > ffe880f8 ihandle>phandle u. ffe307b8  ok
0 > cd /SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi/mmu  ok
0 > .properties
name                      "mmu"
  ok
0 >

So the /memory and /virtual-memory nodes look correct - but the "mmu" 
property in /chosen is set to point to "/SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi/mmu" which 
doesn't actually have any properties set!

Does anyone know what this second CPU MMU node is used for? Should the 
/chosen "mmu" property point to /virtual-memory instead? Or should this 
node be an exact copy of /virtual-memory?


ATB,

Mark.

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