Package: base-installer Version: 1.67 Severity: important Tags: d-i patch
As the subject says, kernel-installer doesn't know about power5+ cpus. The attached patch does fix this, and joins a cpuinfo for a pseries 710 machine. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-powerpc Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Index: powerpc.sh =================================================================== --- powerpc.sh (revision 40490) +++ powerpc.sh (working copy) @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ arch_get_kernel_flavour () { CPU=`grep '^cpu[[:space:]]*:' "$CPUINFO" | head -n1 | cut -d: -f2 | sed 's/^ *//; s/[, ].*//' | tr A-Z a-z` case "$CPU" in - power3|i-star|s-star|power4|power4+|ppc970*|power5) + power3|i-star|s-star|power4|power4+|ppc970*|power5|power5+) family=powerpc64 ;; *)
processor : 0 cpu : POWER5+ (gs) clock : 1898.100000MHz revision : 2.0 (pvr 003b 0200) processor : 1 cpu : POWER5+ (gs) clock : 1898.100000MHz revision : 2.0 (pvr 003b 0200) processor : 2 cpu : POWER5+ (gs) clock : 1898.100000MHz revision : 2.0 (pvr 003b 0200) processor : 3 cpu : POWER5+ (gs) clock : 1898.100000MHz revision : 2.0 (pvr 003b 0200) timebase : 237332000 machine : CHRP IBM,9110-51A