[Qemu-devel] Re: First OOPS

[Blue Swirl]

On 12/22/08, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>  Le 22 déc. 08 à 12:20, Blue Swirl a écrit :
>
>
>
> > On 12/22/08, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > On an install CD there is a forth script which start yaboot with good
> > > parameters but currently OpenBIOS is not able to decode this script
> (inside
> > > XML tags).
> > >
> >
> > Did OHW ever handle this?
> >
>
>  It does, but it is a hack: it computes the checksum of the script to
> identify it, and according the checksum the things to do are hardcoded into
> OHW.
>
>  You have a big "switch()" and a "case" for each known script (for instance
> "debian etch install CD", "debian sarge install CD", etc).

Well, it wasn't that hard. The patch o_2_use_bootinfo.diff adds
parsing of CHRP file ppc\bootinfo.txt. Still, the loaded yaboot does
not work. Maybe a problem with ELF loader?

I've shuffled the patch series a bit, so here are all pending patches.
Would anyone mind if I applied them?

q_1_ppc_openbios.diff
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q_2_ppc_use_prom_env.diff
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q_3_ppc_use_fw_cfg.diff
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o_1_ppc_add_boot.diff
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o_2_use_bootinfo.diff
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o_3_ppc_use_fw_cfg.diff
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