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Date:      Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:21:47 +0530
From:      "Jayachandran C." <jchandra@freebsd.org>
To:        richo <richo@psych0tik.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: FDT phandle change. [svn commit: r226466]
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In-Reply-To: <20111020225639.GB15019@richh-imac.office.boxdice.com.au>
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:26 AM, richo <richo@psych0tik.net> wrote:
> On 18/10/11 11:28 +0530, Jayachandran C. wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:29 AM, richo <richo@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. =A0The old representation was a pointer, =A0which
>>>> 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, o=
r
>>> 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 =A0you 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.



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