[Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 boot game os flag no longer honoured

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Grant Ferley wrote:
> Thanks for the reply Geert.  After being set in 2.16.22-rc3, the kboot
> prompt reports that the boot flag is indeed set to 0 (boot game os) when
> other-os-flash-util -s /dev/sdb is executed.  Running boot-game-os from the
> kboot prompt does work correctly as it always has.

OK.

> However, if the system is powered off (shutdown from Linux to runlevel 0
> hangs and the unit needs to be manually powered off), the game OS loads when
> turned back on.  It would appear then that there is something not happening

OK.

> right when newer kernels are shutdown to runlevels 0 and 6, perhaps.

So it's the `console doesn't reboot or shutdown properly' problem, which we're
working on.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geert at sonytel.be [mailto:geert at sonytel.be] On Behalf Of Geert
> Uytterhoeven
> Sent: June 3, 2007 4:12 AM
> To: fer at mts.net
> Cc: cbe-oss-dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] PS3 boot game os flag no longer honoured
> 
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 fer at mts.net wrote:
> > I'm using Geoff's git tree, I worship him for maintaining this.  For the
> > last month or so, (not sure exactly which build started this behavior),
> > there was a change to the block devices used on the PS3.  All appears fine
> > with the new devices (/dev/ps3da*, /dev/ps3flash), but when using
> > other-os-flash-util to set the boot flag on /dev/ps3flash, it appears set
> > but does not reboot the Game OS.  After reboot, Flag still claims to be
> set
> > (according to other-os-flash-util).
> 
> That's strange... I'll take a look at it tomorrow. While I don't boot to
> GameOS
> regularly, it did work last time I tried.
> 
> Does other-os-flash-util on kernel 2.6.16 (e.g. your kboot bootloader
> kernel,
> if you still use the original one?) report the flag is set?
> 
> > I've check Geoff's source for the latest ps3pf utils, but the os-flash
> > utilities appear basically unchanged and not useful for >2.6.21 builds.
> > Forgive my blatant ignorance, while being a developer, I've never
> developed
> > kernel drivers or the like, so I know I'm out of my league here.  I'm just
> > curious if anyone has any info on this, and what I might be doing wrong,
> > such as trying to use /dev/ps3flash when it's not meant for this.  My
> latest
> > build from git is 2.6.22-rc3-g68f05783-dirty with this issue.
> 
> /dev/ps3flash is indeed the correct device to use with other-os-flash-util
> on
> recent kernels.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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