On Oct Mon 06 2003 16:39, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Woody's yaboot is not new enough to work on G4s and G5s. You need the > > newest yaboot from penguinppc.org. In fact, I'm not sure it's been > > tested with G5s yet. > > > > According to Nick Lopez in a post on this list less than a week ago > > (didn't you already search the archives?), the kernel "hasn't survived > > contact witha G5 yet". Also, the powerpc kernel developer BenH hasn't > > gotten access to a G5 yet, so it's unlikely to work until he does. > > Not exact ;) > > I had access to a g5 for a short while. My current bk 2.4.23-pre, when > compiled for POWER4 with g5_defconfig will happily boot a G5 ;) Though > it will have some drawbacks: > > - No fan control: all fans ramp up to full speed (_very_ noisy) > after a couple of minutes > - No cpufreq control, CPU boots at low speed (1.3Ghz iirc) > - No SMP, only one CPU is booted > - No sound > > I will probably not have another G5 until at least 2 or 3 weeks from now > at which point I'll be for a few years an Australian guest citizen :) > > My ability to continue working on the G5 kernel should be preserved despite > beeing an IBM employee, though I yet to have written confirmation of this.
Wow! Are you coming to AU?? :-) A pity that I will be having exams and will leave AU in December back to Spain! Would like to get a picture with the maintainer of the most-useable ppc kernel branch ;-) Are you going to work in Sydney's IBM building? If so, lucky you! When I saw it, I felt like (hoooopefully :-) coming back in some years as an IBM employee in their Linux branch 8-) OK.. I'll stop dreaming ;-) -- J. Javier Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://rigel.homelinux.com
