[OpenBIOS] Analysis of current Solaris 8 boot failure on SPARC32

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/01/11 13:51, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know whether Solaris 8 uses the romvec v0 memlist arrays or
>> whether it uses the relevant properties read directly from the
>> /virtual-memory and /memory nodes?
>
> Ah I think there is a distinct possibility that the memory properties are
> being generated incorrectly on SPARC32 :/
>
> Artyom: any chance you could send the output of the following in OBP?
>
> cd /
> .properties
>
> cd /memory
> .properties
>
> cd /virtual-memory
> .properties
>

Do you mean these,

http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2010-October/005611.html

or some other ones?

> My suspicion is the translations property is wrong (definitely the virtual
> address part of the translation struct because it doesn't respect
> #address-cells) and also possibly the mode.


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Regards,
Artyom Tarasenko

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