[OpenBIOS] First OOPS

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 22 déc. 08 à 17:23, Blue Swirl a écrit :

> On 12/22/08, Laurent Vivier <laurent at lvivier.info> wrote:
>>
>> Le 22 déc. 08 à 12:20, Blue Swirl a écrit :
>>
>>
>>
>>> On 12/22/08, Laurent Vivier <laurent at lvivier.info> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On an install CD there is a forth script which start yaboot with  
>>>> good
>>>> parameters but currently OpenBIOS is not able to decode this script
>> (inside
>>>> XML tags).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did OHW ever handle this?
>>>
>>
>> It does, but it is a hack: it computes the checksum of the script to
>> identify it, and according the checksum the things to do are  
>> hardcoded into
>> OHW.
>>
>> You have a big "switch()" and a "case" for each known script (for  
>> instance
>> "debian etch install CD", "debian sarge install CD", etc).
>
> Well, it wasn't that hard. The patch o_2_use_bootinfo.diff adds
> parsing of CHRP file ppc\bootinfo.txt. Still, the loaded yaboot does
> not work. Maybe a problem with ELF loader?
>
> I've shuffled the patch series a bit, so here are all pending patches.
> Would anyone mind if I applied them?
> < 
> q_1_ppc_openbios 
> .diff 
> > 
> < 
> q_2_ppc_use_prom_env 
> .diff 
> > 
> < 
> q_3_ppc_use_fw_cfg 
> .diff 
> > 
> < 
> o_1_ppc_add_boot.diff><o_2_use_bootinfo.diff><o_3_ppc_use_fw_cfg.diff>


I don't totally agree with some of them, but it is a good start and  
all are really needed, so please apply...

Regards,
Laurent
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