[OpenBIOS] Booting SunOS from OpenBIOS

[Artyom Tarasenko]

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk> wrote:
> On 03/04/13 13:14, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>
>> Very interesting. That could actually be right for two reasons:
>>
>> 1. 0x1000 is a multiple of page size
>>
>> 2. If you're not checking the return result, then what is the sense in
>> requesting the same allocation (va = 0) twice?
>>
>> So yes, I'd definitely try adding some test code to check if va == 0,
>> and if so, set align = size before calling ofmem_claim_virt().
>
>
> Trivial patch attached - a quick test shows that it still boots my Solaris 8
> CD here.

SunOS crashes at the same place as with your previous patch. (Which is
probably a good sign).

There is one interesting thing when I try to boot kadb:
OFMEM: ofmem_claim phys=ffffffffffffffff size=00001000 align=00001000
OFMEM: ofmem_claim_virt virt=00000000 size=00001000 align=00001000
OFMEM: ofmem_map_page_range ffc66000 -> 006f7a000 00001000 mode 000000bc
...
OFMEM: ofmem_claim phys=ffffffffffffffff size=00002000 align=00002000
OFMEM: ofmem_claim_virt virt=ffc65000 size=00002000 align=00000000
OFMEM: Non-free virtual memory claimed!
(and here it goes astray)

Does IEEE-1275 say something about this case?

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Artyom Tarasenko

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