[Cbe-oss-dev] ps3 petitboot rc2 release

[Geoff Levand]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Assmann wrote:
> Geoff Levand schrieb:
>> I uploaded a second rc ps3-petitboot-rc-08.06.27 today:
>> 
>>   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/geoff/cell/ps3-petitboot/
> 
> Just had a look at your second petitboot rc. Looks good, I have a few
> patches for petitboot you might want to look at. They are based on
> petitboot v0.2 from Benjamin and Jeremy, so chances are good they might
> apply to your version too.


I'll try to merge what I can from your patches into our PS3 set.


> Will this be consolidated?


We have been working toward that, but I think some cleanup is needed on
our PS3 patches.  To make things easier, I made a git repository for the
PS3 + openSUSE patches here:

  http://git.infradead.org/users/geoff/petitboot-patches.git

Before I had just been uploading the OpenWRT patchset to kernel.org,
which indirectly had the petitboot patches as patches of patches against
the OpenWRT sources.


> The current petitboot doesn't recognize the openSUSE install CD/DVD
> because of a path issue in yaboot parser.


OK, can you make an iso image available for me to test with?  Smaller
is better...


> Another part I'm not so fond
> of is that if you have multiple installations the order in which
> devices are discovered is random.


Do you have any ideas of how you would handle that?


> I see the parameter root=/dev/ram0 added to the kernel commandline,
> what's the reason for that?

I don't know why.

-Geoff