Re: printing and remembering platform name
Frank Wille <[email protected]>
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Tim Rightnour wrote:
>> For Pegasos it would look like that:
>> mainbus0 (root): bplan,Pegasos2
>>
>> I have already seen this in other ports, and I like it.
>
> Actually.. this has been on my todo list for awhile now.
:)
> The correct way to do it is to pass it to oea_startup() as the sole
> argument. Take a look at prep/prep/machdep.c.
Oh, great! I didn't know. Then you have to modify the last patch I sent you.
> However, all that does is print the model name at boot. We also should
> store it in a model name global variable somewhere, so we can later use it
> in place of the OFW searches we do everywhere.
Yes, this is exactly what I already did (check my patches).
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