In the meanwhile... http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan? entry=ibm_adopts_solaris_for_bladecenter
Now, that's a BLASTWAVE! Pegasos FIRST, IBM POWER next! R&B :-) On Oct 27, 2005, at 5:09 AM, Murray.Jensen at csiro.au wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:18:34 -0600, William Kucharski writes: > >> GRUB2 would likely be more likely able to support booting on >> ROMs like U-Boot's, as use of the latter would involve booting via >> a compressed >> ramdisk image of some type; >> > > So you mean a two stage boot where U-Boot boots GRUB2? Which then > boots > OpenSolaris? > > >> booting from a OF ROM generally involves extensive >> use of OF calls to allocate and map memory until the kernel is >> able to do so >> itself. >> > > I see - and it is the intention of GRUB2 to support all these OF > calls that > OpenSolaris needs I presume? > > The alternative is for U-Boot to provide the required OpenFirmware > support - > is it clear what sort of things OpenSolaris needs from > OpenFirmware? Is > OpenFirmware really Open as the name suggests? (are there any > patent problems > etc?) > > It might be easier for me to just port what I need from GRUB2 over > to U-Boot, > since I know U-Boot pretty well. Any thoughts? Cheers! > Murray... > -- > Murray Jensen, CSIRO Manufacturing & Infra. Tech. Phone: +61 3 > 9662 7763 > Locked Bag No. 9, Preston, Vic, 3072, Australia. Fax: +61 3 > 9662 7853 > Internet: Murray.Jensen at csiro.au > > To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO does not represent, warrant > and/or > guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been > maintained or > that the communication is free of errors, virus, interception or > interference. > > The information contained in this e-mail may be confidential or > privileged. > Any unauthorised use or disclosure is prohibited. If you have > received this > e-mail in error, please delete it immediately and notify Murray > Jensen on > +61 3 9662 7763. Thank you. > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >
