[OpenBIOS] latest SVN doesn't boot -kernel on PPC

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Blue Swirl wrote:

>> Does anyone have an idea what's going on?
> 
> If there is no disk, kernel will be executed. I'd suspect breakage from r828.

Yeah, that's probably right. What should happen now is that the 
arch_init() function for each architecture should set up the NVRAM 
variables based upon the QEMU firmware configuration and the Forth will 
do the rest.

However, since the boot() function gets called before (encode-bootpath) 
then this could cause an issue. My dev cycles are fairly limited at the 
moment, but I think the following is the right solution:


- At the moment, only NVRAM variables are set in arch_init(). A few 
lines of code need to be added to place the kernel command line (QEMU's 
-append) into /chosen/bootargs

- Ensure that kernel boot only (i.e. no Forth) is attempted in any of 
the arch-specific boot() functions

- Change the boot word in forth/admin/userboot.fs so that 
(encode-bootpath) is called just before $load


HTH,

Mark.

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