ofpath bugfix powerpc g5 dual sata

peter cros pxwpxw8 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 02:12:43 EST 2008


This one still needs fixing.

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:57 AM, peter cros <pxwpxw8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am submitting this small patch to fix a residual bug in ofpath, for Apple
> powerpc64 g5 with dual sata drives, ubuntu and possibly other installations
> which use dash as their default shell.
>
> When ybin runs ofpath in the target root system with the default shell (#!
> /bin/sh ), in ubuntu this is /bin/sh -> dash.
>
> The "let" statement used to increment the ID for multiple k2-sata drives, is
> not found by the dash shell as used by ubuntu, in my g5 for example.
>
> Failure to increment K2_DEVICE_ID returns the same k2-sata path for each of
> multiple sata drives, ybin fails to find correct boot drive.
>
> This patch just avoids using "let".
>
> Tested on powerpc g5 Openfirmware V4, dual sata drives, ubuntu 804.
>
>  -----------------------------------
> ~/src/gits$ diff -pu yaboot/ybin/ofpath test/ybin/ofpath
>  --------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- yaboot/ybin/ofpath    2008-09-26 21:36:38.000000000 +1000
> +++ test/ybin/ofpath    2008-09-26 16:41:00.000000000 +1000
> @@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ scsi_ofpath()
>          K2_DEVICE_ID=0
>          while [ "$DEVICE_PATH" = "" ] ; do
>              SCSI_HOSTNUMBER=`expr $SCSI_HOSTNUMBER - 1`
> -            let "K2_DEVICE_ID += 1"
> +# let not found in dash     #       let "K2_DEVICE_ID += 1"
> +        K2_DEVICE_ID=$((K2_DEVICE_ID+1))
>              DEVICE_PATH="$(printhost $SCSI_HOSTNUMBER $HOST_LIST)"
>          done
>          echo
> "${DEVICE_PATH##*device-tree}/k2-sata@$K2_DEVICE_ID/disk at 0:$PARTITION"
>
> -----------------------------
> peter cros
>
>



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