Re: ofwboot.xcf problem (port-macppc/44895)

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 17:12:26 +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> > I don't see anything obviously wrong with ofwboot/alloc.c and also
> > note that it does work in the ELF version.  We can just switch to
> > libsa's alloc.c to get a working ofwboox.xcf I guess, but the puzzle
> > is taunting.  If anyone has any ideas how to debug this properly,
> > please come forward.
> 
> No ideas for further debugging here, I'm afraid.
> Here you're the expert, not me...
> 
> However, let me suggest that if we know a workaround to make a
> working ofwboot.xcf that we implement it for now, so that we get
> a working ofwboot.xcf out as part of a release, and avoid the
> embarrasment of having to point users to a NetBSD-5(?)-era
> ofwboot.xcf to get their newly installed machines to boot,
> ref. my recent experience where neither the 7.1 nor the 6.1
> ofwboot.xcf turned out to work to boot a newly installed system's
> GENERIC kernel from a hard drive (on a Mac Mini).
> 
> Preferably the workaround should also go into -7 and -6...

The workaround is already in -6 and -7 and it's called ofwboot.elf :)

-uwe