Is em endian-clean?

Kip Macy kip.macy at gmail.com
Wed May 23 01:10:37 UTC 2007


Sun4v runs a hypervisor as part of its firmware. On freebsd it
requires a different kernel from sparc64. Getting the same kernel to
work on both would require more re-work of sparc64 than I felt like
doing given that USIII isn't supported.

There isn't currently an ISO image being produced. Cross-building and
then netbooting from x86 is fairly painless. If that won't work for
you I can figure out how to generate an ISO.

      -Kip


On 5/22/07, Jack Vogel <jfvogel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Turns out they gave me a T2000 to use, just what everyone needs
> > in their cubicle :) Now I just have to get it installed.
> >
> > Jack
> >
>
> Sigh, this just isnt my day, trying to boot the sparc64 april snapshot
> and the thing fails during boot, I wouldnt mind checking this endian
> issue if I could just get hardware that I can test on to work :)
>
> Any magic to get the box to boot? I am just using disk1, 'boot cdrom'
> from the prom,  then hit enter to boot kernel it says:
>
> jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0068000.
> ERROR: Last Trap: Illegal Instruction.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Jack
>


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