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Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:04:54 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Rick Lund" <rick.lund@onstor.com>
Cc: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>, <dl-cougar>
Subject: Re: putting cougars in the e-lab
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 17:00:27 -0800 "Rick Lund" <rick.lund@onstor.com>
wrote:

> The argc/argv stuff is being added now by Warren (copied from the
> bobcat implementation into the cougar tree).  He indicated, however,
> that the kernel uses some PROM supplied routines.  Is this really the
> case?

I don't need the functions for cougar.  I was doing that in the early
days of bobcat bringup.

> -Rick
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:58 PM
> To: Maxim Kozlovsky
> Cc: Rick Lund; dl-cougar
> Subject: Re: putting cougars in the e-lab
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 16:53:46 -0800 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
> <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > And PROM has to do this anyway for the tftpboot to work.
> > 
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Maxim Kozlovsky 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:52 PM
> > To: Rick Lund; Andy Sharp
> > Subject: RE: putting cougars in the e-lab
> > 
> > I think Andy wants the PROM to simply set the sibyte mac registers,
> > then we don't need to pass anything to Linux, Linux does not need to
> > parse anything and everything works because nobody will change the
> > registers.
> > 
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Rick Lund 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:48 PM
> > To: Maxim Kozlovsky
> > Subject: RE: putting cougars in the e-lab
> > 
> > Is the MAC address part of the strings that we pass up from prom
> > into BSD right now?  I see some code that sets things like:
> 
> Max is correct on both counts.  Also, the prom is not passing things
> into the kernel properly (or at all) on cougar.  argv, argc, envp are
> all NULL.  Maybe that could be fixed at the same time? ~:^)
> 
> > "memsize=..."
> > "osloadoptions=..."
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > "macaddr0=..."
> > "macaddr1=..."
> > 
> > Before jumping to BSD start address.  Is this the right info?  Or
> > am I looking at something irrelevant?
> > 
> > -Rick
> > 
> > _____________________________________________
> > From: Maxim Kozlovsky 
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:33 PM
> > To: dl-Cougar
> > Subject: putting cougars in the e-lab
> > 
> > Before we do that, we need to fix setting of the MAC addresses in
> > the PROM and in Linux. Otherwise it might not work very well for any
> > number of cougars greater than one.
> > 
> > Unless this is well under way, let me know and I will do it.
