[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3 linux kernel & wifi

[Michael Ellerman]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:53 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 06 May 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > 
> > > At the boot time the system hang looking for root device , and after a while
> > > i figured out that device name changed and all i need to do is to replace in
> > > kboot.conf    sda1 with ps3da1 and so on .. I  wonder if this is normal or
> > > did i miss something ?
> > 
> > Indeed. The old storage driver used the SCSI framework, while the new one (at
> > least the disk part) uses the block layer directly. Hence the new device names
> > `ps3d' instead of `sd'.
> 
> Is there any reason why you chose the notation with drive letters (ps3da, ps3da1)
> instead of numbers (ps3d0, ps3d0p0)?

I didn't know you were a closet Solaris weenie Arnd?

;)

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