On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:57:51PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 23:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.12/2.6.12-mm1/ > > > > > > - Someone broke /proc/device-tree on ppc64. It's being looked into. > > I did, the breakage is in 2.6.12, and no, it's not broken :) > > The problem is that the "ofpath" script that is part of the yaboot > package has a stupid bug where for some reason, when booting from SCSI > (or libata in this case), it decides to check wether there are any > symlinks in /proc/device-tree, and if not, decides it's broken and > aborts. It doesn't actually make any use of the symlinks that were there > though (and they were useless and partially broken anyway, which is why > I removed them). this check was done because of BootX, which caused a broken and unusable device-tree. > So it's a bug in "ofpath", a bit annoying, but at the same time, you > don't need to run it when changing kernels, so it's not too harmful. > > The fix is : so long as BootX is no longer in use, yes. > --- ofpath 2005-06-20 16:56:12.000000000 +1000 > +++ ofpath.patched 2005-06-20 16:57:00.000000000 +1000 > @@ -425,14 +425,6 @@ > { > case "$DEVNODE" in > sd*) > - if ls -l /proc/device-tree | grep -q ^lr ; then > - true > - else > - echo 1>&2 "$PRG: /proc/device-tree is broken. Do not use BootX to boot, use yaboot." > - echo 1>&2 "$PRG: The yaboot HOWTO can be found here: http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc"; > - return 1 > - fi > - > ## use common scsiinfo function to get info we need. > scsiinfo || return 1 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe yaboot-devel". Trouble? Contact [email protected] -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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