The attached patch adds support for writing the nvram using the nvram

utility from the new powerpc-utils pkg from IBM; it also simplify a bit
the code.

Patch from: Emanuele Giaquinta (exg@gentoo.org)

diff --git a/ybin/ybin b/ybin/ybin
index 379b94b912593e4f9eff6e61c90df59c9dbc98c9..19ee2aab580188abb50821a02dccd06d84b9d83f 100755 (executable)
--- a/ybin/ybin
+++ b/ybin/ybin
@@ -436,21 +436,22 @@ checkconf()
     fi
 
     if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
     fi
 
     if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then

-       ## see if nvsetenv exists and is executable
-       if (command -v nvsetenv > /dev/null 2>&1) ; then
-           [ -x `command -v nvsetenv` ] || MISSING=1 ; else MISSING=1
+               ## see if nvsetenv or nvram exists and is executable
+               for program in nvsetenv nvram ; do
+                       if (command -v $program > /dev/null 2>&1) && [ -x `command -v $program` ] ; then
+                               NVRAM_PROG=$program
+                               break
+                       fi
+               done
+               if [ -z "$NVRAM_PROG" ] ; then
+                       nonvram=1
+                       echo 1>&2 "$PRG: Warning: \`nvsetenv' and \`nvram' could not be found, nvram will not be updated"
+               fi

        fi
 
        if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
            ## if nvsetenv exists see if its the old broken version
        fi
 
        if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
            ## if nvsetenv exists see if its the old broken version

-           if [ "$MISSING" != 1 ] ; then
-               nvsetenv --version > /dev/null 2>&1 || OLD=1
-           else
-               nonvram=1
-               echo 1>&2 "$PRG: Warning: \`nvsetenv' could not be found, nvram will not be updated"
-           fi
-
-           if [ "$OLD" = 1 ] ; then
+               if [ "$NVRAM_PROG" = "nvsetenv" ] && ! nvsetenv --version > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then

                ## i check this myself to avoid misleading error
                ## messages. nvsetenv should REALLY support --version.
                if [ ! -e /dev/nvram ] ; then
                ## i check this myself to avoid misleading error
                ## messages. nvsetenv should REALLY support --version.
                if [ ! -e /dev/nvram ] ; then


@@ -926,7 +927,11 @@ util_install()
        if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
            [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ] && echo "$PRG: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram..."
            [ "$DEBUG" = 1 ] && echo 1>&2 "$PRG: DEBUG: boot-device=${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
        if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
            [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ] && echo "$PRG: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram..."
            [ "$DEBUG" = 1 ] && echo 1>&2 "$PRG: DEBUG: boot-device=${ofboot},${OFFILE}"

-           nvsetenv boot-device "${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
+               if [ "$NVRAM_PROG" = "nvsetenv" ] ; then
+                       nvsetenv boot-device "${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
+               else
+                       nvram -p common --update-config boot-device="${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
+               fi

            if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
                echo 1>&2 "$PRG: An error occured while updating nvram, we'll ignore it"
            fi
            if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
                echo 1>&2 "$PRG: An error occured while updating nvram, we'll ignore it"
            fi


@@ -1112,7 +1117,11 @@ mnt_install()
     if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
        [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ] && echo "$PRG: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram..."
        [ "$DEBUG" = 1 ] && echo 1>&2 "$PRG: DEBUG: boot-device=${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
     if [ "$nonvram" = 0 ] ; then
        [ "$VERBOSE" = 1 ] && echo "$PRG: Updating OpenFirmware boot-device variable in nvram..."
        [ "$DEBUG" = 1 ] && echo 1>&2 "$PRG: DEBUG: boot-device=${ofboot},${OFFILE}"

-       nvsetenv boot-device "${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
+       if [ "$NVRAM_PROG" = "nvsetenv" ] ; then
+               nvsetenv boot-device "${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
+       else
+               nvram -p common --update-config boot-device="${ofboot},${OFFILE}"
+       fi

        if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
            echo 1>&2 "$PRG: An error occured while updating nvram, we'll ignore it"
        fi
        if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
            echo 1>&2 "$PRG: An error occured while updating nvram, we'll ignore it"
        fi