Re: [OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] OpenBIOS release

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 1 mars 09 à 20:19, François Revol a écrit :

> > On 3/1/09, François Revol <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I think we are pretty much ready for the 1.0 release of
> > > > OpenBIOS.
> > > > I'll
> > > > bump the version number, update the web pages and upload the
> > > > image
> > > > files also to Qemu within a few hours, unless there are
> > > > objections.
> > >
> > >
> > > Does this one support -nographics ?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > Also, while I got a binary that makes the Haiku loader go a little
> > > further, it's not booting yet, though I can't assert if it's
> > > OpenBIOS
> > > or the loader.
> > >
> > > AFAIK it actually used to boot long ago on Pegasos, so it should
> > > still
> > > do more than currently.
> >
> > This is what I get with Haiku:
> > 0 > boot
> >
> > checking for memory...
> > 0: base = 0x00000000, size = 134217728
> > 1: empty region
> > total physical memory = 128 MB
> > suggested page table size = 1048576
> > need new page table, size = 1048576!
> > new table at: 0x07d00000
> > MSR: 0x00003030
> > found 4 translations
> > found page table!
> > no mapping for the exception handlers!
> Laurent Vivier handed me a binary which prints a little more:
>
> checking for memory...
> 0: base = 0x00000000, size = 134217728
> 1: empty region
> total physical memory = 128 MB
> suggested page table size = 1048576
> need new page table, size = 1048576!
> new table at: 0x07d00000
> MSR: 0x00003030
> found 6 translations
> found exception handlers!
> found page table!
>
> Don't know exactly what he changed.

I've added a translation for vectors page, I didn't commit it because  
it doesn't solve all the problems with haiku bootloader.

> Though it still seems to hand in set-callbacks.

In fact, I think it hangs later, but I didn't have time to search why.

Regards,
Laurent