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

Tarl Neustaedter tarl-b2 at tarl.net
Fri Oct 29 23:08:33 CEST 2010


On 2010-10-29 5:06 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>>> None. It probably tries to access something which is not mapped.
>>
>> This could be verified by changing a line in helper.c:
>>     *physical = 0xffffffffffff0000ULL;
>> to for example
>>     *physical = 0xfef1f0fef1ff0000ULL;
>> and see if the address changes.
>
> It changes for me here:
>
> Unassigned mem write access of 4 bytes to fef1f0fef1ff0ecc from f004127c
>
> But then again I'm not sure whether this comment was aimed at me or Artyom? 
> Does Tarl's suggestion of just ignoring write accesses to the ROM area sound 
> feasible?

I don't think you should ignore them - that's what the hardware would do, but 
if you're trying to write them something is busted.




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