Subject: Re: [PATCH] Provide mechanism for editing builtin command-line in zImage binary.

From: Matthew McClintock <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 15:35:18 -0500

On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 16:26 -0400, Michal Ostrowski wrote:
> I've had some experience with trying to edit existing OF trees (i.e.
> take a G5 OF tree and alter it to reflect the fact that the OS has a
> hypervisor between it and the HW).  It's not a pleasant experience.
> 
> Thus for OF based systems I'd be very wary of trying to edit the OF
> tree
> in arbitrary ways prior to Linux seeing it. 

Out of curiosity what was hard about it? Also it is worth mentioning
some systems don't have to privilege of having a OF tree ready to go by
the time Linux starts.

-Matthew