On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 09:51:28AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 19:49, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 12:56:15AM -0700, ed crumly wrote: > > > i would like to know if there's anyway i can help, as i do have in my > > > possession a 1.6ghz G5 mac. it is stoked up with 2 gig of ram, 2 > > > > Ok, welcome. > > > > Can you please try out the 2.4.25-4 power4-pmac kernel, and confirm that > > it works on your box. Please fill bug reports against it for anything > > that is problematic. > > > > This is still a 32bit kernel, and maybe the upcoming 64bit kernel would > > be more adapted, but this will come second. > > FYI, while 2.4 compiled for G5 may boot enough for doing an install, > I do _not_ support using the G5 with anything older than 2.6.3, and > I strongly suggest 2.6.4
Understood. If it can pass the phase of running the installer, it can then easily be used to install the 2.6.x kernels i have yet to package on the final system. The real problem is that the current debian-installer isn't yet 2.6 ready. Once it is, this will be a different story. But even once the 2.6 kernel is available, these early tests and support work on debian-installer will work also for 2.6 kernels. > Also, while I still support the 32 bits kernel, ulitmately, I will > only continue developement on the 64 bits kernel for those machines. Understood. Debian doesn't (yet) has 64 bit toolchains for building those kernels. I guess only a 64bit binutils (should be ok i hear) and 64bit generating gcc should be needed for that right ? You can run 32 bit userland without problems on the 64 bit kernel. BTW, i would eagerly welcome a donation of any old power3 or power4 based workstation anyone has lying around, would help with the debian-installer power3 and power4 support, and also with the above work. Friendly, Sven Luther
