Re: [PATCH] ppc: Fix boot with yaboot with ARCH=ppc

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
 > The merge of machine types broke boot with yaboot & ARCH=ppc due to the
 > old code still retreiving the old-syle machine type passed in by yaboot.
 > This patch fixes it by translating those old numbers. Since that whole
 > mecanism is deprecated, this is a temporary fix until ARCH=ppc uses the
 > new prom_init that the merged architecture now uses for both ppc32 and
 > ppc64 (after 2.6.15)
 > 
 > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

This fixed my eMac, thanks.

Acked-by: Mikael Pettersson <[email protected]>

 > 
 > Index: linux-work/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c
 > ===================================================================
 > --- linux-work.orig/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c	2005-11-15 18:15:23.000000000 +1100
 > +++ linux-work/arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c	2005-11-15 18:18:37.000000000 +1100
 > @@ -602,7 +602,19 @@
 >  #endif /* CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD */
 >  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
 >  		case BI_MACHTYPE:
 > -			_machine = data[0];
 > +			/* Machine types changed with the merge. Since the
 > +			 * bootinfo are now deprecated, we can just hard code
 > +			 * the appropriate conversion here for when we are
 > +			 * called with yaboot which passes us a machine type
 > +			 * this way.
 > +			 */
 > +			switch(data[0]) {
 > +			case 1: _machine = _MACH_prep; break;
 > +			case 2: _machine = _MACH_Pmac; break;
 > +			case 4: _machine = _MACH_chrp; break;
 > +			default:
 > +				_machine = data[0];
 > +			}
 >  			break;
 >  #endif
 >  		case BI_MEMSIZE:
 > 
 > 
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