yaboot patches needed for pegasos support

[Sven Luther]

Please consider adding some of the patches from :

  http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/yaboot/devel/

In particular the following are needed in order to have any chance of yaboot
working on the pegasos with the fixed firmware :

  yaboot-1.3.13-pegasos-serial.patch -- not sure if pegasos specific, but fixes
the repeat-forever-second-keystroke-on-serial-console.
  yaboot-1.3.13-malloc.patch -- pegasos OF now claims first 20MB for graphic
card emulation and itself, as a consequence the fixed claim at address 3MB will
fail. This patch goes searching for a freely available area in case of failure
instead of dying.

  A similar patch for netboot is also needed :
--- fs_of.c.orig 2005-10-18 01:35:26.000000000 +0200
+++ fs_of.c 2005-10-18 01:34:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -132,6 +132,8 @@
      static char buffer[1024];
      char *filename;
      char *p;
+ unsigned long addr;
+

      DEBUG_ENTER;
      DEBUG_OPEN;
@@ -160,7 +162,11 @@
          return FILE_ERR_BAD_FSYS;
      }

- file->buffer = prom_claim((void *)LOAD_BUFFER_POS, LOAD_BUFFER_SIZE, 0);
+ for (addr = LOAD_BUFFER_POS; addr <= LOAD_BUFFER_POS * 16 ;addr+=0x100000) {
+ file->buffer = prom_claim((void *)addr, LOAD_BUFFER_SIZE, 0);
+ if (file->buffer != (void *)-1) break;
+ }
+
      if (file->buffer == (void *)-1) {
          prom_printf("Can't claim memory for TFTP download\n");
          prom_close(file->of_device);

Not sure about the other patches though, but they are of less immediate need.

Friendly,

Sven Luther

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this occur in Lucid?