head -r345758: usefdt=1 style boot fails on PowerMac7,2 G5 (1 core per socket): Error -2 adding node /cpus/PowerpC,970 [G4 failures too, problem identified]

[Mark Millard]

On 2019-Apr-7, at 15:46, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> . . .

> 
> I'll see about diff'ing the good vs. bad PowerMac3,6
> ofwdump -ap output when I have a chance.
> 

The outputs are not such that a diff is all that useful,
a extensively different output ordering appears to be 
involved.

For reference:

# ls -lTd ~/ofwdump_*.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  166008 Apr  7 16:21:33 2019 /root/ofwdump_11,2_usefdt1.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   93713 Apr  7 13:11:21 2019 /root/ofwdump_3,6_bad.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  162390 Apr  7 15:40:23 2019 /root/ofwdump_3,6_good.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  818400 Apr  7 15:15:03 2019 /root/ofwdump_7,2_good.txt

( *3,6_bad.txt was under usefdt=1 and based on far more modern head code than the
matching *3,6_good.txt file was. *7,2_good.txt is from the old version of head as
well. )

ofwdump_3,6_bad.txt seems to be missing a lot, based on the size difference vs.
ofwdump_3,6_good.txt .


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Mark Millard
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