[Qemu-devel] Re: [OpenBIOS] [commit] r791 - in trunk/openbios-devel: fs/grubfs include/fs packages

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:59:09PM +0200, repository service wrote:
> Author: mcayland
> Date: Tue Jun  8 22:59:08 2010
> New Revision: 791
> URL: http://tracker.coreboot.org/trac/openbios/changeset/791
> 
> Log:
> As documented on the mailing lists, change the interposition order of the disk packages from:
> 
> cdrom -> deblocker -> disk-label -> (misc-files | sun-parts | pc-parts | mac-parts) 
> 
> to:
> 
> cdrom -> deblocker -> disk-label -> (sun-parts | pc-parts | mac-parts) -> misc-files 
> 
> This makes the overall code much simpler, since instead of passing get-info structures between the different layers to work out 
> the current device offset, each package can simply maintain its own offsets and bubble them back up to the parent.
> 
> There are also many, many bugfixes present is patch, some of which are given below:
> 
> - Add debugging in /packages/misc-files, augment debugging in all other disk packages
> - Fix alignment issue in /packages/pc-parts so it works correctly on strictly align archs, e.g. SPARC64
> - Fix parsing of [<id>,][filename] arguments to load (in preparation for next patch set)
> - Fix byte-swapping issues in /packages/mac-parts (in theory it should now work regardless of endian)
> 

Unfortunately this commit has broken PowerPC boot using the Quik
bootloader. CD-ROM boot is not affected. This can easily be reproduced
using the image from:

http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/qemu/powerpc/debian_lenny_powerpc_small.qcow2

I have tried with the latest available revision, and the problem is
still there. Does anyone has an idea of the problem before I start
debugging it?

[CCed: qemu-devel@nongnu.org as this version is now used in QEMU]

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