On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:15:33AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 09:07, Sven Luther escribió: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:02:55AM -0300, Germán Poó Caamaño wrote: > > > El jue, 22-01-2004 a las 07:06, Sven Luther escribió: > > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:34AM -0000, Leigh Brown wrote: > > > > > Sven Luther said: > > > > > > Mmm, if your machine is indeed prep based, please create a prep > > > > > > partition like 6.1 says, move the kernel you downloaded from my > > > > > > site to > > > > > > it, and launch it from OF. > > > > > > > > > > FYI The 170 is a 64-bit Power3 CHRP machine. These support the ppc32 > > > > > and > > > > > ppc64 kernels, but the 32-bit kernel requires CONFIG_POWER3. > > > > > > > > Ok, cool. I will upload a new kernel with power3 and power4 32bit > > > > support soon. We will need to upgrade archdetect for those though, so > > > > kernel-installer installs the right thing. > > > > > > > > Could you (or someone) send me the /proc/cpuinfo of those boxes ? > > > > > > # cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > processor : 0 > > > cpu : Power3 (630+) > > > clock : 333MHz > > > revision : 1.4 (pvr 0041 0104) > > > bogomips : 665.19 > > > > > > total bogomips : 665.19 > > > machine : CHRP IBM,7044-170 > > > > We currently have the following subarches : > > > > powerpc/chrp > > powerpc/chrp_pegasos > > powerpc/chrp_rs6k > > > > Clearly this would be a chrp-rs6k, but we have to distinguish it from > > the other chrp_rs6k, which use old powerpc processors, right. > > > > This would mean adding something like : > > > > powerpc/chrp_power3 > > powerpc/chrp_power4 > > > > Do we need to add the rs6k keywoard ? Are there any power3/power4 which > > are not of chrp-rs6k lineage ? In particular in what booting is required ? > > It would be very useful if were added a serial console support.
Huh ? Does this not work yet ? I guess there are some serial console d-i issues though, not sure, but this is a more general d-i issue. Friendly, Sven Luther
