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

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

On 05/02/16 18:33, Alyssa Milburn wrote:

> 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.

Excellent!

>> 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.

Does adding a call to delete-fake-copyright in ciface_quiesce() as found
in arch/ppc/qemu/methods.c help here?


ATB,

Mark.