[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/5] sparc64: implement OF memory manager

Igor Kovalenko igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 08:12:21 CEST 2009


Hi!

This patch series implements OF memory manager.

I used arch/ppc/qemu/ofmem.c as a starting point,
future plans in ofmem area would be to migrate common
parts from working implementations (ppc and sparc64)
into shared ofmem module.

I decided to switch ofmem.h declarations to use ucell
type while passing arguments so ofmem declarations
can be used by all architectures.

Client interface handler now uses ofmem implementation
instead of walking hardware translation tables. Since setup
code in entry.S does install it's own translations ofmem
initialization routine simply copies entries from hardware.
Properties "available" and "translations" are then populated
as needed.

This implementation passes boot test with no visible changes
on screen for HelenOS-0.4.0-sparc64.iso

Linux boot does not really improve this time due to
conflicts with memory mappings in low memory region.
Also there is a problem in qemu with evaluation of conditional
codes in case disrupting trap is taken before conditional
branch is executed. This precludes silo second-stage code from
working. Patch fixing that is posted to qemu-devel list.

Signed-off-by: igor.v.kovalenko at gmail.com

-- 
Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko



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