On 12/19/18 12:06 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: [...] > > I see that you patched ofpath in the past. Could you give me some > reference materials on where you found out those convention ? It seems > that grub-ofpathname has always lived happily with: > > $ /usr/sbin/grub-ofpathname /dev/sda2 > /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:b > > The patch is quite trivial to make to make it behave like > yaboot/ofpath, but I'd like to polish the patch before sending it > upstream. Is this something that is known to be different in between > IBM, sparc64 vs powerpc (powermac) in OpenFirmware implementation ? > Components of a path are in this general form: <name>@<address>:<arguments> 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 Find freely available references on openfirmware matters at: http://firmworks.com/ https://www.openfirmware.org/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS
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