OpenSolaris

1. Project: Solaris PowerPC Port
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       1. Virtual Memory - HAT
       2. Cache Behavior
       3. GNU Toolchain and Host Environment
       4. Hardware Tools for the Target
       5. Bootloader - Net/Disc
       6. Kernel Inititalization
       7. Openfirmware - VOF
       8. Kernel Context Switching
       9. User Context Switching
       10. Exceptions, Traps and Interrupts
       11. Panic Handling
       12. System Calls
       13. Kernel Runtime Loader
       14. RTLD and ld
       15. KMDB / MDB / PMDB
       16. Installer
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       18. Cyclic Backend - Timers
       19. CTF - Compressed Text Format
       20. Console Items
       21. ISM
       22. Root Nexus
       23. DDI - Device Driver Interface
       24. Low Level Atomic Operations
       25. MP Support
       26. Platform Specific Modules
       27. DTrace
       28. Checkpoint and Restore
       29. Module Stubs
   14. Status

Kernel Context Switching

Overview

We moved a populated 2.6 based swtch.s into /ppc/ml and eliminated the empty placeholder. We considered upgrading the assy specific funcs to c based and an eventual swtch.c but for now we are assembly based.

More info to be added on next the pending source release