From owner-cvs-all Sun Apr 8 5:33: 9 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD5237B422; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 05:33:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [62.49.251.130] (helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14mENH-000ACR-0U; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:32:59 +0100 Received: from herring (herring [10.0.0.2]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f38CVi737119; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:31:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:31:44 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Doug Rabson , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha srmdisk.c In-Reply-To: <20010405104048.B98807@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > 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. > > Sorry for the dumb question, but does this affect boot1, or just the > loader? This is just for the loader. The boot1 code calls prom_open and prom_close directly instead of using the FS support code in libstand. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message