[EFIKA] Really, don't pretend to be CHRP

Grant Likely grant.likely at secretlab.ca
Mon Apr 14 12:54:08 EST 2008


On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:52 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
> Fedora 9 works on Efika without the separate 'device-tree supplement',
>  thanks to the kernel's own fixups. With one exception -- because 'CHRP'
>  still appears on the 'machine:' line in /proc/cpuinfo, the installer
>  misdetects the platform and misconfigures yaboot, putting it into a PReP
>  boot partition instead of in the /boot filesystem where the Efika's
>  firmware could find it.
>
>  The kernel's fixups for Efika already correct one instance of 'chrp', in
>  the 'device_type' property. This fixes it in the 'CODEGEN,description'
>  property too, since that's what's exposed to userspace in /proc/cpuinfo.
>
>  Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>

Looks good to me.  I don't see any reason not to pick this up.

Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely at secretlab.ca>
>
>  diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
>  index 5ab4c84..723422e 100644
>  --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
>  +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
>  @@ -2240,6 +2240,14 @@ static void __init fixup_device_tree_efika(void)
>         if (rv != PROM_ERROR && (strcmp(prop, "chrp") == 0))
>                 prom_setprop(node, "/", "device_type", "efika", sizeof("efika"));
>
>  +       /* CODEGEN,description is exposed in /proc/cpuinfo so
>  +          fix that too */
>  +       rv = prom_getprop(node, "CODEGEN,description", prop, sizeof(prop));
>  +       if (rv != PROM_ERROR && (strstr(prop, "CHRP")))
>  +               prom_setprop(node, "/", "CODEGEN,description",
>  +                            "Efika 5200B PowerPC System",
>  +                            sizeof("Efika 5200B PowerPC System"));
>  +
>         /* Fixup bestcomm interrupts property */
>         node = call_prom("finddevice", 1, 1, ADDR("/builtin/bestcomm"));
>         if (PHANDLE_VALID(node)) {
>
>
>
>  --
>  dwmw2
>
>



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Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.



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