From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org (pentafluge.infradead.org [213.146.154.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DC1DDEB6 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:29:55 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Probe Efika platform before CHRP. From: David Woodhouse To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <1166558300.19254.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <17799.34168.811328.653008@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1166522096.25827.76.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1166528379.19254.69.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4587D338.7060906@246tNt.com> <1166538553.25827.99.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1166558300.19254.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 21:29:48 +0000 Message-Id: <1167773388.22068.443.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Sylvain Munaut , Paul Mackerras , bbrv@genesi-usa.com List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 06:58 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > OK, let's drop the patch and assume the device-tree will be fixed > > shortly. > > No, keep the patch for now. I'm afraid they aren't willing to fix their > device-tree. They need to fix their firmware anyway, because it's screwed in other ways too -- they have an off-by-one error in their handling of partition numbers, so when yaboot tries to read a partition table it actually gets the first sector of the first partition, and it all goes downhill from there. That one was even _fixed_ in the Pegasos firmware last year, but it's come back in Efika -- and we _can't_ work around it in the kernel. For Fedora, we're just going to wait for the fixed firmware; we can't sensibly support it as-is. -- dwmw2