9 Mar
2014
9 Mar
'14
12:12 a.m.
On 2014-Mar-8, 16:29 , Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
What should it do to replace the name property? A assume it would call some forth code to do this but I don't know how to do this properly. Any ideas?
It is possible by simply recreating a property with the same name but a different value; [...]
Careful with that. On Sun Openboot, the proper procedure is to delete the property and then create a new property. It seems that when you simply create a property on top of a previous property of the same name, it doesn't re-allocate the storage. So overwriting a string property with a longer string will trash either your heap or your device tree. I don't know if OpenFirmware/OpenBios fixed that tradition.