From: Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
To: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide mechanism for editing builtin command-line in zImage binary.
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:35:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1149107718.8379.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1149107204.6507.97.camel@brick>
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:26 -0400, Michal Ostrowski wrote:
> I've had some experience with trying to edit existing OF trees (i.e.
> take a G5 OF tree and alter it to reflect the fact that the OS has a
> hypervisor between it and the HW). It's not a pleasant experience.
>
> Thus for OF based systems I'd be very wary of trying to edit the OF
> tree
> in arbitrary ways prior to Linux seeing it.
Out of curiosity what was hard about it? Also it is worth mentioning
some systems don't have to privilege of having a OF tree ready to go by
the time Linux starts.
-Matthew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-31 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-30 2:01 [PATCH] Provide mechanism for editing builtin command-line in zImage binary mostrows
2006-05-30 2:27 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-05-30 20:41 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-05-30 21:12 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-05-31 20:04 ` Mark A. Greer
2006-05-31 20:26 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-05-31 20:35 ` Matthew McClintock [this message]
2006-05-31 21:04 ` Michal Ostrowski
2006-06-09 9:47 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-06-09 13:06 ` [PATCH] Editable kernel " mostrows
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