Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tested the patch on briQ. As far as I can tell, CodeGen's > "SmartFirmware" is crap, frequently suffering mysterious failures that > require unplugging and waiting (unplugging and replugging rapidly > isn't enough). It also suffers frequent ATA failures, where the disk > or controller simply stop responding. > > 1. (major) Firmware does not properly set /chosen/bootpath to include > the partition number.
What happens? Is it something I could try to reproduce on the PegasosII? > 2. (major) Partition numbering *seems* to be 0-based. I had a lot of > problems booting, but I'm pretty sure it is. Same on the pegasos... :/ > 3. (minor) /chosen/bootpath is this: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0 > but the "hd" devalias is this: > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL > PROTECTED],0 > Note the differing case of "f". This prevents the devalias matching > from succeeding. I've fixed this by using strncasecmp instead of > strncmp. That seems the right way to solve this problem. > Problem 1 could be worked around by taking the yaboot approach: > iterate over all disk partitions looking for a file named > "/grub/grub.cfg" (i.e. /boot/grub/grub.cfg). This fallback can be used > if we do not find a grub.cfg in prefix. Right... > Problem 2 could be worked around by blacklisting firmwares based on > the /openprom properties. Here is the briQ's output: With blacklist you mean setting some additional flags that describe which bugs the firmware has? > ok dev /openprom > ok .properties > relative-addressing > model "BRIQ,1.0.2.60" > SmartFirmware-version "1.1" > CodeGen-copyright "SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2000 > by CodeGen, Inc. All Rights Reserved." > name "openprom" > > Does the Pegasos have a SmartFirmware-version property? It does. It has both a CodeGen and bplan copyright property. The SmartFirmware-version is 1.2 here. The model is "Pegasos2,1.2". It seems to me that this SmartFirmware-version is not interesting because it looks like this version is not changed for every build. The most interesting property is "built-on", which we can use to detect if a specific version has the bug or not. Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel