[OpenBIOS] OpenSolaris starts to live on SPARC64

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:

> I wonder if it's calling the special code for "call-method" and 
> "interpret" instead? Are you able to send me a DEBUG_CIF output for your 
> Linux kernel boot against r732 or point me towards how you are booting 
> the kernel so I can try myself?

Okay, I've been experimenting with the Debian Lenny SPARC netinst ISO at 
the same time and have found that what I suspected was the case. I've 
committed a fix at r733 which now gets the Milax boot further than the 
previous error (good), but now segfaults again (bad) :(

Interestingly enough, the Debian ISO now does a lot better. Partway 
through I get a lot of junk on the console, however if you leave it long 
enough then you get as far as this, although sometimes I get kernel 
panics before this point (I wonder if some MMU/CPU emulation is broken 
somewhere?)


[   22.433828] Console: switching to mono PROM 128x96
[   33.617482] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   33.674609] su: probe of ffe2d758 failed with error -12
[   33.766561] brd: module loaded
[   33.821616] loop: module loaded
[   33.863748] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver
[   33.916168] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; 
override with idebus=xx
[   34.003501] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[   34.067544] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   34.128004] usbhid: v2.6:USB HID core driver
[   34.187412] TCP cubic registered
[   34.229665] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[   34.284422] registered taskstats version 1
[   34.335301] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[   34.405875] RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
[   38.876574] List of all partitions:
[   38.921149] No filesystem could mount root, tried:  ext2
[   38.995468] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
on unknown-block(0,0)
[   39.076635] Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom


Blue - can you confirm at your end?


ATB,

Mark.

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