Frank, On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 9:27 AM Frank Scheiner <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/3/19 08:19, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > Dear grub developers, > > > > We are looking to extend grub-ofpathname so that it also handles > > PowerPC system such as PowerMac with a limited OpenFirmware > > implementation[1]. In particular the following patch has been found to > > produce an output compatible with such system [2]. > > > > While we understand that components of a path are in this general form: > > > > <name>@<address>:<arguments> > > > > We also do understand that name can be safely omitted as the device is > > actually getting located by > > its address. Therefore, these two paths refer to the same device: > > > > /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:b > > > > /@f4000000/@d/@0:b > > > > However for the PowerMac we tested it on, only the second form has > > been found to be accepted. > > On which machine did this work? I wrote earlier today that the modified > grub-ofpathname does not work on a 11,2 type G5, so the patch seems to > be not generic enough.
Sorry about that. I must say there are way too many emails to read. Could you reply to the Debian bug number so that I can get a clean view of the issue. Then simply please post the output of: (1) yaboot/ofpath (the one that works) (2) grub-ofpathname (specify if this with my patch) from your 11,2 type G5. Thanks
