HEADSUP: FDT phandle change. [svn commit: r226466]
richo
richo at psych0tik.net
Thu Oct 20 22:56:23 UTC 2011
On 18/10/11 11:28 +0530, Jayachandran C. wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:29 AM, richo <richo at psych0tik.net> wrote:
>> On 17/10/11 19:21 +0530, Jayachandran C. wrote:
>>>
>>> I have committed this revision that changes the way phandle is
>>> represented for FDT. The old representation was a pointer, which
>>> would not work on 64bit - and the new representation is as an offset.
>>>
>>> This should not affect the FDT users, but if there is any breakage on
>>> ARM or PPC due to this please let me know.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> JC.
>>>
>>
>> I can test on ppc tonight, is there anything specific I need to test, or
>> just
>> build world+kernel and confirm that it boots?
>
>buildkernel would be sufficient since this does have changes that
>affect the userspace. Let me know if you see any new crash, change in
>device behavior or missing devices after these changes.
>
>Thanks,
>JC.
Kernel built and booted fine for me on ppc64, on an iMac G5
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