[PATCH] use public interface to detect CAS reboots (take 2)

Mike Wolf mjw at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jan 16 07:33:51 EST 2008


This is the second pass of this patch.  The fw variable name is changed
to use ibm,client-architecture-support-reboot field which is already present
in the firmware.  Please disregard the previous patch.

The firmware field used to detect CAS reboots (ibm,fw-nbr-reboots) is 
really a private field that could change without warning.  A new field 
ibm,#reconfig-reboots will be added as a public interface intended to 
be used for this detection.  The patch will first check for 
ibm,client-architecture-support-reboot if that is not found it will see 
if ibm,fw-nbr-reboots is present and will use that instead.


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diff --git a/second/yaboot.c b/second/yaboot.c
index 5fc1213..3d93275 100644
--- a/second/yaboot.c
+++ b/second/yaboot.c
@@ -1702,7 +1702,8 @@ yaboot_main(void)
      DEBUG_F("/chosen/bootargs = %s\n", bootargs);
      prom_get_chosen("bootpath", bootdevice, BOOTDEVSZ);
      DEBUG_F("/chosen/bootpath = %s\n", bootdevice);
-     prom_get_options("ibm,fw-nbr-reboots",fw_nbr_reboots, FW_NBR_REBOOTSZ);
+     if (prom_get_options("ibm,client-architecture-support-reboot",fw_nbr_reboots, FW_NBR_REBOOTSZ) == -1 )
+        prom_get_options("ibm,fw-nbr-reboots",fw_nbr_reboots, FW_NBR_REBOOTSZ);
      fw_reboot_cnt = simple_strtol(fw_nbr_reboots,&endp,10);
      if (fw_reboot_cnt > 0L)
           prom_get_options("boot-last-label", bootlastlabel, BOOTLASTSZ);





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