Re: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-10 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/10/19 12:22 PM, Daniel Kiper wrote: > How long it will take? I do not want to hold release any longer. If you actually want to release within the next days now, I'm okay with postponing this for the next release or an upcoming fix release. I have not performed enough tests to know whether of

Re: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-10 Thread Daniel Kiper
CC-ing Eric. On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 10:10:35PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 5/3/19 9:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >> We also do understand that name can be safely omitted as the device is > >> actually getting located by > >> its address. Therefore, these two paths re

Re: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 5/3/19 9:57 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> We also do understand that name can be safely omitted as the device is >> actually getting located by >> its address. Therefore, these two paths refer to the same device: >> >> /pci@f400/ata-6@d/disk@0:b >> >> /@f400/@d/@0:b >> >> Howev

Re: Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi Mathieu! On 5/3/19 8:19 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > We are looking to extend grub-ofpathname so that it also handles > PowerPC system such as PowerMac with a limited OpenFirmware > implementation[1]. In particular the following patch has been found to > produce an output compatible with such

Extend grub-ofpathname to behaves like yaboot/ofpath on PowerPC system

2019-05-02 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Dear grub developers, We are looking to extend grub-ofpathname so that it also handles PowerPC system such as PowerMac with a limited OpenFirmware implementation[1]. In particular the following patch has been found to produce an output compatible with such system [2]. While we understand that com