HEADSUP: FDT phandle change. [svn commit: r226466]

[Jayachandran C.]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:26 AM, richo <richo at psych0tik.net> wrote:
> 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

Thanks for testing this.

JC.