Re: Bug#589701: ofpath is not compatible with non-builtin disk controllers

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

Hi Milan,

So the interesting question is this:

	What do we have to do to tweak ofpath and make it handle properly all  
(or some) of those other OF-aware controllers?

Can you help us on that?

Thanks!

Rick

On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Milan Kupcevic wrote:

> On 09/29/2010 12:44 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > OK... If I'm understanding this correctly, it means that NewWorld  
> > Mac's
> > can boot either from the on-board ATA or one of these OF-supporting  
> > SATA
> > controllers  (possibly with some tweaks to ofpath to deal with any
> > peculiarities of the non-Apple controllers) but *not* from most
> > non-OF-aware controllers.
>
> Right. But it can also boot from an on-board SCSI, on-board SATA, and
> any Firewire drive. Add-on SCSI, SATA, and ATA controllers must have
> proper OpenFirmware support to be able to boot an OpenFirmware  
> machine.
>
> M