[OpenBIOS] SOLVED: the mystery of Solaris on SPARC32 and the missing Forth arguments

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> Artyom Tarasenko wrote:
>
>> Unlike Linux/Debian, Solaris rarely does unaligned accesses (in fact I
>> think I haven't seen one which I didn't trigger myself).
>
> Yeah, I see a lot of those on Debian too :(

This is not bad. They are supposed to be there. Probably they are used
for flushing something.
The annoying thing is that they don't allow to have DEBUG_UNALIGNED
always turned on.

> I think one of the next things I'd like to do is try and figure out if it's
> possible to switch SPARC32 to ofmem, since we already have code that
> correctly generates all these properties so it would be a shame not to use
> it (I see accesses to some of the /memory nodes just before it crashes on
> OpenBIOS, so I'd like to eliminate that as a source of confusion first).

Would be cool. Then the sparc32 port can be used to improve the sparc64 one.

>> Btw, where does the message "device auxio size -1" come from?
>
> It seems as if there should be an auxio device somewhere:
>
> http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~baker/devices/lxr/http/source/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/auxio.c?v=2.6.11.8
>
> Perhaps this is the device that Solaris is trying to access and failing?

Yes, that's what I mean. But what can be wrong with the OpenBIOS implementation?
OpenBIOS:

0 > cd /obio/auxio  ok
0 > .properties
name                      "auxio"
reg                       -- c : 00 00 00 00 00 90 00 00 00 00 00 01
 ok

OBP:
ok cd /obio/auxio
ok .attributes
address                  ffee6000
reg                      00000000  00900000  00000001
name                     auxio
ok

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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/