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 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. > > > > Thanks for the detailed explanation and for investigating this! Much > > appreciated. > > > >> 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 ? > > > > This sounds like a very reasonable approach. Let's use either that or > > maybe query OpenFirmware whether we're running on a PowerMac, if that's > > somehow possible. > > Any comments from Daniel or Vladimir? Would be great to get this fixed > before the 2.04 release comes out. GRUB itself works perfectly fine on > PowerMacs but due to the grub-ofpathname tool being unreliable, we currently > need to rely on external tools to determine the proper open firmware device > path.
How long it will take? I do not want to hold release any longer. And I would like to hear Eric's opinion here. Daniel _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
