> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:48:29 -0700 > From: Ted Bullock <[email protected]>
Hi Ted, Yes, I think your idea is sane and the diff looks good. But I'd like to test it myself before I commit it and I haven't found the time to do so yet. Do remind me if I haven't done so in a week or so. Thanks, Mark > On 2021-11-20 2:49 p.m., Ted Bullock wrote: > > This patch disables fchmod in the bootblock for IDE drives on sparc64 > > > > I can confirm that this allows my sunblade 100 to boot -current > Hi folks, > > I'm requesting to have the patch I sent in a previous mail reviewed and > committed. I also attached the patch here. > > (for reference) > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=163744498300496&w=2 > > This should affect only a small set of older sparc64 machines that use > IDE drives instead of SCSI. At least two such machines types are not > working and are corrupting filesystems when booted with recent versions > of OpenBSD since writing calls were introduced to the second stage boot > block. Tested on an Ultra 5 and Sun Blade 100. The impact is that these > older sparc64 machines will potentially re-use entropy from previous > boot cycles if a new random seed file was not written between restarts. > > -- > Ted Bullock <[email protected]> > > [2:text/plain Show Save:sunblade100.patch (3kB)] >
