[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Fix up LANCE ethernet DMA mapping under Solaris 8 on SPARC32.

[Blue Swirl]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25/04/11 21:51, Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>>> So in short, given the amount of effort involved for a similar result I
>>> don't see many advantages over the fixed address mapping implemented in
>>> the
>>> patch.
>>
>> It's fine then. It's just good to know that this is a bit of a hack.
>
> That's what it feels like, although I would say it's a workaround for a
> Solaris kernel bug. Hopefully the commit message and the comment are verbose
> enough so that if/when someone does work out what the right behaviour should
> be, they can change it with a reasonable degree of confidence.
>
> Are you happy for me to commit this, with just a minor change to add the
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SBUS variable into sparc32_config.xml?

Yes, it's OK.

Maybe we should also have tracepoints like QEMU or Linux kernel.
Something that can be enabled at run time.