On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Artyom Tarasenko <atar4q...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 2009/9/19 Blue Swirl <blauwir...@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 e8...@2.66ghz . A bug in the system timer implementation?
