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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:48:02 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: prom changes for ext3 support
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Who's going to downgrade?  No one.  Yes, the PROM upgrade will have
linux as the default boot.  There's no hassle there.

Detecting is hard to make non-buggy.  It will be hard enough just to
get ext2fs support and the other stuff in there.  That's all I'm
saying.  If we have to ship w/o detection, I'm fine with that.

Cheers,

a

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:33:20 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> It needs to detect, otherwise the upgrade process will have to set the
> said environment variable. In case the customer wants to downgrade,
> the environment variable has to be modified as well instead of simply
> rebooting back from the original flash. It would be much easier for
> everybody if there is one less thing to worry about.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:30 AM
> Cc: dl-Cougar
> Subject: Re: prom changes for ext3 support
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:17:43 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
> <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello Warren,
> > 
> > Just want to make sure that there will be no confusion. After the
> > changes to PROM to support ext3 boot, it should support both bsd and
> > ext3 and should detect the type of the partition and filesystem at
> > runtime.
> 
> I don't think it needs to detect.  I'm happy if there is an
> environment variable that specifies to boot linux or boot bsd.  If it
> doesn't work, can't find the partition or the file, then too bad.
> But I do want to be able to specify the file to boot, ie., I want to
> be able to boot an arbitrary file on the compact flash, or at least
> an arbitrary file in a specific directory.  Currently it only
> boots /bsd IIRC.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> a
