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[POWERPC] Fix builtin command line interaction with firmware
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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 <apw@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Amos Waterland authored and Paul Mackerras committed Jun 15, 2006
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c
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Expand Up @@ -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 */
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