On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 11:29:09PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > 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.
Same for me.
-Otto
>
> 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)]
> >
