[patch 2/6] cuimage for Bamboo board

David Gibson dwg at au1.ibm.com
Fri Sep 7 13:26:49 EST 2007


On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:42:43AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Updated patch below.  NOTE: This relies on Scott Wood's strtoull patch
> as PIBS stores the MAC addresses as ASCII strings in flash.
> 
> 
> Add a cuboot wrapper for the Bamboo board.  This also removes some obsoleted
> linker declarations that have been moved into ops.h
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>

Except..
[snip]
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-bamboo.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/treeboot-bamboo.c

It's not the fault of this patch, but since bamboo actually boots from
PIBS, not OpenBIOS, it probably shouldn't be lumped in with the
treeboot stuff.  PIBS should be able to load ELF images directly,
rather than using the silly treeboot header, for one thing.

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