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 components of a path are in this general form: <name>@<address>:<arguments> 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@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:b /@f4000000/@d/@0:b However for the PowerMac we tested it on, only the second form has been found to be accepted. How best should we provide you with a patch (the current one is kind of a hack)? Should we extend grub-ofpathname to take a new parameter (eg. `--omit-names`) and decide to print or not the name, would that be acceptable ? Comments very welcome, [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=916864 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;bug=916864;filename=powerpc.patch;msg=5 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
