Re: [EFIKA] Really, don't pretend to be CHRP

[Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>]

I thought we were using efika.forth for this in Fedora.

Why don't we just roll all those fixes into prom_efika.c or something
and make it a huge, unwieldy file nice and *seperate* from prom_init.c?

:)

-- 
Matt Sealey <matt@genesi-usa.com>
Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations

David Woodhouse wrote:
> Fedora 9 works on Efika without the separate 'device-tree supplement',
> thanks to the kernel's own fixups. With one exception -- because 'CHRP'
> still appears on the 'machine:' line in /proc/cpuinfo, the installer
> misdetects the platform and misconfigures yaboot, putting it into a PReP
> boot partition instead of in the /boot filesystem where the Efika's
> firmware could find it.
> 
> The kernel's fixups for Efika already correct one instance of 'chrp', in
> the 'device_type' property. This fixes it in the 'CODEGEN,description'
> property too, since that's what's exposed to userspace in /proc/cpuinfo.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> index 5ab4c84..723422e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
> @@ -2240,6 +2240,14 @@ static void __init fixup_device_tree_efika(void)
>  	if (rv != PROM_ERROR && (strcmp(prop, "chrp") == 0))
>  		prom_setprop(node, "/", "device_type", "efika", sizeof("efika"));
>  
> +	/* CODEGEN,description is exposed in /proc/cpuinfo so
> +	   fix that too */
> +	rv = prom_getprop(node, "CODEGEN,description", prop, sizeof(prop));
> +	if (rv != PROM_ERROR && (strstr(prop, "CHRP")))
> +		prom_setprop(node, "/", "CODEGEN,description",
> +			     "Efika 5200B PowerPC System",
> +			     sizeof("Efika 5200B PowerPC System"));
> +
>  	/* Fixup bestcomm interrupts property */
>  	node = call_prom("finddevice", 1, 1, ADDR("/builtin/bestcomm"));
>  	if (PHANDLE_VALID(node)) {
> 
> 
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