[OpenBIOS] [commit] r832 - in trunk/openbios-devel: arch/sparc32 drivers

Blue Swirl blauwirbel at gmail.com
Wed Aug 4 18:38:19 CEST 2010


On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
> repository service wrote:
>
>> Log:
>> sparc32: fix pre-loaded kernel command line
>>
>> Fix more breakage from r828:
>>
>> For some reason, QEMU/Sparc32 does not set FW_CFG_CMDLINE_SIZE, so
>> we have to use FW_CFG_KERNEL_CMDLINE instead.
>>
>> Setup romvec obp_arg.argv[1] and "boot-file" property.
>>
>> Remove obsolete command line setup code from obio.c.
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Just for the record, with r828 the way that bootpath/bootargs should now
> work is as follows:
>
> - All Qemu configuration should now take place in the arch_init() (or
> equivalent) function only
>
> - arch_init() should read the Qemu firmware device and setup the NVRAM
> variables boot-device and boot-file (boot-device can now take a list of
> space-separated devices to search - see ppc/qemu for an example of this)
>
> - Everything else is now magically handled by Forth in (encode-bootpath)
> based upon the following rules from the IEEE-1275 spec:
>
>    - If either "load" or "boot" are issued on their own, search through
>    each boot-device in order until open returns a valid ihandle, then
>    load/boot from this. bootargs is set to the contents of boot-file.

Does not work:
Trying cdrom...
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image
No valid state has been set by load or init-program

0 > printenv
name                      "options"
boot-from                 "disk"
boot-args                 ""
boot-device               "cdrom cdrom:d"
use-generic?              "false"
boot-script               ""
boot-screen               ""
ttyb-rts-dtr-off          "false"
ttyb-ignore-cd            "true"
ttyb-mode                 "9600,8,n,1,-"
ttya-rts-dtr-off          "false"
ttya-ignore-cd            "true"
ttya-mode                 "9600,8,n,1,-"
tpe-link-test?            "true"
load-base                 "4000"
scroll-lock               "true"
skip-netboot?             "false"
default-mac-address       "false"
pci-probe-mask            "-1"
selftest-#megs            "0"
screen-#rows              "24"
screen-#columns           "80"
output-device             "ttya"
input-device              "ttya"
use-nvramrc?              "false"
oem-logo?                 "false"
oem-banner                ""
oem-banner?               "false"
nvramrc                   ""
fcode-debug?              "false"
diag-switch?              "false"
boot-file                 ""
boot-command              "boot"
auto-boot?                "true"
 ok
0 > boot
Trying cdrom...
Not a bootable ELF image
Not a bootable a.out image
No valid state has been set by load or init-program
 ok
0 > boot cdrom:d
Not a bootable ELF image
Loading a.out image...
Loaded 65536 bytes
entry point is 0x4000
bootpath: /iommu/sbus/espdma/esp/sd at 2,0:d

Jumping to entry point 00004000 for type 00000005...
switching to new context:
>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.12
>> (autobuild at tgm.daemon.org, Wed Apr  9 02:46:11 UTC 2003)
Booting netbsd

I changed the boot-device like this:
diff --git a/arch/sparc32/openbios.c b/arch/sparc32/openbios.c
index 60ee180..3624269 100644
--- a/arch/sparc32/openbios.c
+++ b/arch/sparc32/openbios.c
@@ -187,11 +187,11 @@ arch_init( void )
                push_str("floppy");
                break;
        case 'c':
-               push_str("disk");
+                push_str("disk disk:d");
                break;
        default:
        case 'd':
-               push_str("cdrom");
+                push_str("cdrom cdrom:d");
                break;
        case 'n':
                push_str("net");



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