From owner-cvs-all Thu Apr 5 7:39: 9 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E942937B507; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 07:39:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23289; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:39:00 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f35EcUa02734; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:38:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:38:30 -0400 From: Andrew Gallatin To: Doug Rabson Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha srmdisk.c Message-ID: <20010405103829.A98807@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <200104051029.f35AT0P85532@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104051029.f35AT0P85532@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dfr@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:29:00AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-BETA on an i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Rabson [dfr@FreeBSD.org] wrote: > dfr 2001/04/05 03:28:56 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/boot/alpha/libalpha srmdisk.c > Log: > Don't call prom_open() multiple times. This confuses some versions of SRM > and makes it impossible to boot from floppy and CD on some AlphaServer > platforms. Can we MFC this, please? It would be really nice to have 4.3 install on big-iron machines without the dd workaround. Thanks, Drew -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message