Re:

[Cameron Berkenpas <cam%eleventhhourfx.com@localhost>]

This is off-topic as well, but I second that!

I wasn't going to ask. I was just going to look through the NetBSD code, but 
if someone wants to share some of that information it would help and save a 
lot of time. I already spent a really long time figuring out that sparc v9 
has a 2047 byte bias when accessing stack memory.

-Cameron

On Monday 22 September 2008 6:14:28 pm raymond.meyer%rambler.ru@localhost wrote:
> Hi, this is a bit off topic.
>
> I'm learning SPARC assembly and UltraSPARC architecture. I would like to
> create a small flat binary file with gcc and then load and execute it from
> openboot. The idea is to execute privileged instructions and mess about
> with system registers which are not accessable from userland.
>
> Does anyone know how this can be done on Ultra 10? I think on powerup the
> processor is in RED state, is there a way to execute a few assembly
> instructions that print a message on console? Is there a way to interact
> with openboot firmware?