[osol-code] Compiling SUNWgnome-help-viewer

2009-01-27 Thread Alexander
Hello. I've just compiled and installed SUNWfirefox 3.1 from JDS spec files (trunk version of 26 January). Now I'm going to compile SUNWgnome-help-viewer. But during compilation linker says: Undefined first referenced symbol in file nsAString:

[osol-code] Question about

2009-01-27 Thread Abhishek Bhattacharjee
Hi all -- I'm new to Solaris and am trying to understand how the kernel handles TLB misses. From reading the manuals, I gather that instruction and data TLB misses cause an interrupt to the OS. Thereafter, the miss handler uses the MMU Tag Register and TSB pointer register to search for the req

Re: [osol-code] How do I recompile the Opensolaris kernel?

2009-01-27 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
> And to browse the code of the kernel (which is called > uts): > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/ > usr/src/uts/ The kernel isn't called "uts" (although Amdahl has their own Unix variant for the mainframe that's called UTS, but I don't know that there's a connection). Howe

Re: [osol-code] FCode

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Scargall
Solaris supports booting from IDE, SCSI, SAS, SATA, WAN, and SAN for x86 & SPARC. Support depends on the host and firmware. If you have a non-SUN box It's best to run the hardware support utility from the LIVE CD to verify it will work. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-code] FCode

2009-01-27 Thread Perry Smith
On Jan 27, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Steve Scargall wrote: > I doubt there's many people on this alias that will be able to > answer your question with any great detail. I'm no OBP expert but > have played around with it at times especially for debugging low- > level hardware issues. It's extremely

Re: [osol-code] FCode

2009-01-27 Thread Steve Scargall
I doubt there's many people on this alias that will be able to answer your question with any great detail. I'm no OBP expert but have played around with it at times especially for debugging low-level hardware issues. It's extremely powerful and a lot of people forget that it can be used for mu

Re: [osol-code] interdependency of softint-handlers

2009-01-27 Thread Joachim Worringen
Joachim Worringen wrote: > Joachim Worringen schrieb: >> Greetings, >> >> we are writing a stack of layered kernel modules (actually, port it from >> Linux), with a hardware-handling driver at the bottom (call it A), and a >> module B that calls down into A. Next to this, A does upcalls into B. >

Re: [osol-code] FCode

2009-01-27 Thread Perry Smith
On Jan 26, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Steve Scargall wrote: >> Can anyone on this list help me with FCode boot drivers? > > Can you be more specific. What's the actual question/problem? What > hardware do you have (host + adaptors)? What are you trying to do? > What is/is not working? I posted a m