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

[Grant Ferley]

My apologies then to the group for bring up just another facet of a known
issue.  I did not recognize it as such because of the way rebooting appears
to be working, unlike halting the system which obviously hangs.  Thanks
again Geert for the quick responses, I'll wait to see if the problem is
resolved in later builds.

-----Original Message-----
From: geert at sonytel.be [mailto:geert at sonytel.be] On Behalf Of Geert
Uytterhoeven
Sent: June 3, 2007 1:52 PM
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 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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