In D55290#1264539, @des wrote:

This is a textbook example of Chesterton's Fence. I suggest you add a comment referencing bug 274615 instead.

remove not needed mask.

With context.

Rebase and cleanup.

New version which adds the "--execute-only -x" option. If it is given together with -p, no supervision will happen.
If other options needing the supervision feature are given, -x will be not be honoured. If it is desired to spit out
a warning in this case, I will add it.

LGTM

D55412

ok, this one boots fine in p8 pseries and p9 pseries, but p8 powernv it .. just hangs during boot and eventually ends up at OPAL.

In D55315#1266124, @tpearson_raptorengineering.com wrote:

Seeing the same problem with just D54745, D55313, and D55314. I suppose it's possible D54745 could shift things around enough to make the problem appear, but I'm not comfortable merging code into the DMA system when I already know we're violating platform constraints (without D54745 I know for a fact we're allocating bounce buffer in an illegal region and Bad Things via undefined behavior are likely -- just because we get away with it long enough to boot doesn't mean we're not going to get data corruption and lockups later on).

Abandon since we have 4.0.3 port.

Fix compilation errors.

the reason you get an empty lp package is that package=lp in mtree causes the directory to be unconditionally installed, so what you actually have is a package containing only that directory. we don't have a good solution to this right now; i think the right fix is that we would simply not build packages that only contain directories, but i haven't had a chance to look at this recently...