On 6/24/20 1:22 AM, Tyrel Datwyler wrote: > Ok, so on the bright side I've confirmed that IBM open firmware will boot a > pseries machine when the partition ID is provided and points at the actual > PReP > bootstrap partition. I suspect it was just generally omitted because it was > assumed that PReP would always be the first partition historically. I believe > these days that if it isn't the first partition OF is smart enough to locate > it > on its own which seems to further the lack of a need to explicitly provide the > partition ID on this platforms.
Great. > Now the downside is that ofpathname is not able to translate a OF vscsi device > path to a logical device if that OF path includes the partition ID. I'm aware of that and I'm planning to send a series of follow-up patches to address the reverse translation issues, including Mac-specific paths and partitions. > So, I'm still inclined to say that the changes in this patch should be limited > to the Mac platform for the time being. The translation code for NVME block devices (l2of_nvme and of2f_nvme) handles partitions as well, so I think it makes sense to add that support for SCSI devices, too, on all platforms. I will try to send a patch series later this week to address these issues. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
