Re: possible endless loop in PROM initialization

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 04:06:44 EST


From: Markus Dahms <mad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:59:49 +0200

> I could track down the issue to the function __prom_nextprop() in
> arch/sparc/prom/tree.c, but I am now looking for the definition of
> prom_nodeops->no_nextprop() without success.

When we boot the firmware provides a vector of function
pointers, and this is prom_nodeops. So prom_nodeops->no_nextprop()
is a routine inside the PROM.

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