Great work Tom and Team! THANK YOU! http://bbrv.blogspot.com/2006/05/opensolaris-for-powerpc.html
Keep it going! Go Blastware! :D R&B On Jun 1, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Tom Riddle wrote: > We wanted give you all a sneak preview of what we will be pushing > out shortly. This is an actual OpenSolaris kernel that can be > loaded by the ODW's OF and will execute into startup.c. To the > casual observer this may not seem like much but the framework is in > place for all of us to contribute moving forward. We will push out > our branch as soon as we have completed out code release process > here (Sun legality). > > Give it a try :) > > http://www.blastware.org/polaris/index.html > > We are still a bit away from a kernel prompt. We are missing some > key functional pieces ie: 2nd level bootstrap, krtld and ld, but > this code framework is in place. So this kernel, for the moment, > has been statically linked. However we have a branch that has arch > and platform specific code in place, also in /psm we have the 1275 > and are putting the final touches on /boot. Much of the time spent > and challenge has been merging S10 and 2.6/ppc code pieces along > with figuring out which specific arch/platform ie: sparc or x86 > makes sense to follow. Needless to say the learning curve has been > steep but extremely interesting and rewarding. > > We plan to update the wiki early as to the technical details of > what state the branch is at, what we have debugged or bypassed for > the moment. We are actively working over startup.c to bring it > inline with the current approach and that leads into the VM of > which alot has been coded (thanks to Guy) and ready to debug. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org
