On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:27:57PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 06:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > >>As far as I can tell, it's fixed in an as-yet unreleased version of > >>hw-detect: > >> > >> - mac-io bus detection improvements: > >> + Detect mesh SCSI controller (closes: #269655, #271419). > >> + Detect mace Ethernet controller. > >> + Detect mac53c94 SCSI controller. > >> + Detect therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel fan > >>controllers, although > >> only post-reboot for now since those modules aren't in > >> linux-kernel-di-powerpc-*. > >> + Cope with /proc/device-tree/aliases/mac-io pointing to a > >>symlink. > > > >Note that there's a patch on lkml that adds device tables ala > >pci,usb,etc.. for macio. But that's probably useless for you as you'd > >want to support 2.4 aswell? > > I'd be perfectly happy (personally) if it only worked in 2.6. > However, I believe that Sarge d-i has, as one of it's goals, to > support both 2.4 and 2.6 on PowerPC architecture. Does anybody > else on the list know for sure?
Yes. In any case, the hw-detect patch has already been uploaded so the discussion is moot, although mac-io device tables would certainly be very nice to have post-sarge so that we don't have to kludge /etc/modules and can rely on hotplug instead. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
