>> 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 implementa
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Artyom Tarasenko
wrote:
> 2009/9/19 Blue Swirl :
>> 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
2009/9/19 Blue Swirl :
> 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
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