From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Newport Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:10:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparc: fix compile failure ("struct resource" related) Message-Id: <42284227.9000308@netunix.com> List-Id: References: <20050301134440.05ae1152.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050301134440.05ae1152.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: >>In general, you should not need to have the Sun firmware in your >>drivers, just upload them to the card and array from Solaris and they >>will stay there in nvram. >> >> > >Not true if you boot from the SOC/SOCAL disks, OBP will load it's >own firmware which is very slow and has tons of debugging enabled >in it. > > Oook - that is EVIL. We really do not want to taint the kernel with Sun's FCode. I think we could work around this, the OBP is all in FORTH so we should be able to replace the offending upload function with a one line null function in nvramrc. Would this work ?. Caveat - this theory comes from the decaying memory of a 60 year old Fortran hacker and needs to be properly researched in the OBP documentation. Significant ForthHackery maybe required.