[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 5/5] Change OFMEM to allocate memory from the top of RAM downwards.

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Andreas Färber wrote:

> As a general piece of advice I would suggest to turn on debugging for 
> the CIF. I would assume that the client simply calls "claim", then 
> something might be wrong with the mapping to ofmem. Or Solaris makes 
> specific assumptions, which Tarl might be able to answer. Maybe you need 
> to claim specific parts of memory during initial setup so that they are 
> exempt.

Okay. SPARC32 doesn't have CIF, rather it has a block of function 
pointers (called romvec) which used instead. Attached is the same output 
with romvec debugging enabled.


ATB,

Mark.

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