From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: Artyom Tarasenko <atar4qemu@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Reif <reif@earthlink.net>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luis Freitas <lfreitas34@yahoo.com>,
hadi motamedi <motamedi24@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Inquiry:Solaris 8 installation on QEMU
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 20:23:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f43fc5580911041023p5a651837v8c4273ac07456926@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb8d4f70911031550vd67d037tab64024304daa098@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Artyom Tarasenko
<atar4qemu@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/19 Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>:
>> Even Sparc32 can't boot Solaris for some mysterious reason.
>
> Not so mysterious anymore! Mitch Bradley found that subcc instruction
> was not correctly setting carry flag in the case where both arguments
> were 0 and carry flag was previously set. Fixing the bug allowed to
> start booting Solaris 2.5.1 and Solaris 2.6 up to /sbin/init.
> Afterwards I found more corner cases in add(x)cc and sub(x)cc carry
> handling. Now Solaris 2.5.1 (
> http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/10/greetings-professor-falken.html ) and
> 2.6 ( http://tyom.blogspot.com/2009/11/another-week-another-solaris-version.html
> ) can be boot in a single user mode.
Awesome!
> The kernels of Solaris 8 & 9 can be boot too, but then they flood
> about spurious irq 10. It seems that the earlier Solaris versions are
> also suffering from spurious interrupts, because the boot process
> takes very long: ~7 hours on E8200@2.66GHz .
A bug in the system timer implementation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-04 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-17 4:08 [Qemu-devel] Inquiry:Solaris 8 installation on QEMU hadi motamedi
2009-09-19 9:39 ` Blue Swirl
2009-09-21 3:56 ` hadi motamedi
2009-09-22 15:51 ` Luis Freitas
2009-09-21 4:17 ` hadi motamedi
2009-09-21 15:39 ` Blue Swirl
2009-09-22 15:46 ` Luis Freitas
2009-11-03 23:50 ` Artyom Tarasenko
2009-11-04 18:23 ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2009-11-04 21:41 ` Artyom Tarasenko
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