[OpenBIOS] [PATCH 0/7] ppc: improve fake copyright message handling

Alyssa Milburn fuzzie at fuzzie.org
Fri Feb 5 19:33:15 CET 2016


On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 06:08:59PM +0000, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> This series changes the injection of the fake copyright message such
> that it is included just before control is handled to the client. The
> motivation behind this is that older versions of the MacOS bootloader
> don't call the adler32 word which means the injection is omitted and
> boot fails.

Great, thanks! Seems to work fine for me.

> The first patch is actually a build fix (and will likely be applied
> separately) while the rest of the patchset ensures that the message is
> only visible to the bootloader client as discussed on the mailing list.

This means it is available in the guest OSes too (e.g. in the devicetree
under /sys on Linux), which I hope is OK.

- Alyssa



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