Re: [PPC] quick test please? device tree path translation

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Oct 23, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Mike Small wrote:
> Seems to work for me.  It gives the same answers as ofpath (packaged
> with yaboot 1.0.8), except for a usb floppy drive, which your script
> can handle but ofpath cannot.  The machine is a 466Mhz G4 Powermac
> (Digital Audio) with an IDE harddrive and cdrom drive, and a usb
> floppy drive...
>
>
> $ ./ofpathname /dev/hda
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> $ ./ofpathname /dev/hdc
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden
> $ ./ofpathname /dev/sda
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden,0
>
> (for comparison)
> # ofpath /dev/hda
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden:
> # ofpath /dev/hdc
> /address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden/address@hidden:
> # ofpath /dev/sdc
> ofpath: /proc/device-tree is broken.  Do not use BootX to boot, use 
> yaboot.
> ofpath: The yaboot HOWTO can be found here: 
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc
>
> So your script seems better.

Excellent!

To clarify, though, it's not my script: it's from the ppc64-utils 
package (which I'm thinking needs to be renamed)... I just added a 
small patch I needed for my G3 before sending it to the list.

-Hollis