From: Amos Waterland Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 03:45:02 +0000 (-0400) Subject: [POWERPC] Fix builtin command line interaction with firmware X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0e4aa9c2009187fff1c999fe0aaa134c1a84f48a;p=linux-beck.git [POWERPC] Fix builtin command line interaction with firmware It seems that prom_init's early_cmdline_parse is broken on at least Apple 970 xserves and IBM JS20 blades with SLOF. The firmware of these machines returns -1 and 1 respectively when getprop is called for the bootargs property of /chosen, causing Linux to ignore its builtin command line in favor of a null string. This patch makes Linux use its builtin command line if getprop returns an error or a null string. Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras --- diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c index 57d8a16438a0..8c28eb0cbdac 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c @@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ static void __init early_cmdline_parse(void) if ((long)_prom->chosen > 0) l = prom_getprop(_prom->chosen, "bootargs", p, COMMAND_LINE_SIZE-1); #ifdef CONFIG_CMDLINE - if (l == 0) /* dbl check */ + if (l <= 0 || p[0] == '\0') /* dbl check */ strlcpy(RELOC(prom_cmd_line), RELOC(CONFIG_CMDLINE), sizeof(prom_cmd_line)); #endif /* CONFIG_CMDLINE */