Re: The first reboot to hard drive after the CD-rom install failed

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 09:37:55 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 03:35:23AM -0400, Michael wrote:
> > Hmm, all my new world macs have a 'model' property on the /openprom
> > node that says 'OpenFirmware 3' or - on G5s - 'OpenFirmware 4'.
> > Older machines have something like 'OpenFirmware, 1.0.5' or
> > 'OpenFirmware, 2.0'.  
> 
> We need this in the hw sysctl tree, accessing OF properties from install
> media (with current tools) is a real pain (tried that on evbarm to tell
> a RPi* from others - failed miserably).
> 
> Can you make it available, please?

Absolutely. What would you like - just an integer for the major
version, the whole thing as a string or just the version number(s)?
Parsing it in userland is probably less annoying, but I'll do whatever
is most convenient to you.
In hw.openfirmware ?

have fun
Michael