Re: ofwboot problem on OF2 machines

[Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:50:14 +0900
Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:

> I'll commit the patch shortly and send a pullup request,
> but If there is no bad side effect on OF3 machines
> I'll leave that block.

Ok.


> > Unfortunately there are more problem left with ofwboot: since October
> > 2010 no ofwboot 1.12 version seems to work on my PowerBook G4 or iBook
> > G4. No idea what is wrong there...
> >
> > I will have to find some time in the next weeks to debug that.
> 
> I'll also dig out my G4 Mac later.

I have to add that ofwboot itself works, but the kernel crashes very
early (before the copyright). The output is hard to read, because the
crash repeats every few lines.


> > As far as I understand prom2boot() is only called in the beginning to
> > convert the bootpath from the OFW environment. It is not used for the
> > path entered on the command line, so it wouldn't help you?
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Probably prom2boot() is intended to fix path passed from firmware,
> and we can note what device node path should be used on command line
> prompt in document?

Yes, that could probably work.


> Anyway, I'll leave it as is for now.

Ok. At least for netbsd-6 we shouldn't change too much.


-- 
Frank Wille