[OpenBIOS] Latest SPARC64 & Milax update

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> What I can't see at the moment is how the device switch takes place, 
> i.e. when /ramdisk-root is used to load the kernel from the image. There 
> are several checks for nested? in do-boot and friends which make me 
> think that something in init-program should be calling do-boot again 
> once the ramdisk switch has taken place...

Well I'm not sure what *should* be happening, but it seems that I can 
manually boot the ramdisk by hand after the initial expection, e.g:

boot cdrom

And then when the exception is thrown, manually boot the ramdisk with:

boot /ramdisk-root

This gets things a bit further but it looks like we need a module or 2 
included for SPARC64 which aren't in there already.

Tarl: is this nested boot process something that auto-boot should handle 
automatically based on various bootarchive properties set by the initial 
Fcode loader?


ATB,

Mark.

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