On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 00:00 -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote:
> severity 324675 normal
> merge 306012 324675
> tags 324675 patch
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> I believe that this problem arises due to a logic error in print_message()
> function from second/misc.c, which is called to print the boot banner. It
> supports substitution of some variables like ${ARCH} and ${PROM}, however
> if no such variables are found in the text, it just scans through it and
> breaks out of the loop without printing anything. The attached patch fixes
> the problem by ensuring that the message is printed in the end. It works
> for me, would be great if somebody else could confirm it.
FYI, I'm about to upload silo-1.4.10 to sparc-boot.org, with a proper
fix. The reason for the check was correct, just it seems to have been in
the wrong place. The loop where it checks for $vars needs better
checking for where spurious $'s.
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