On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:24:19PM -0800, shyamal wrote: > > "Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Sven> We worked out some missing patches in the debian kernel for > Sven> support of newer kernels with benh, well, benh sent me the > Sven> needed patches, and i added it to the debian upcoming > > Hi Sven, > > Thanks for the update. I'll be happy to assist in testing if you need > a volunteer with a PowerMac7,3 dual G5. I'm looking forward to > testing the new d-i for my final installation.
Can you try booting the standalone kernel at : http://people.debian.org/~luther/power4-newerg5-test-kernel It will not work, since it has no modules, but i want to know if it passes the earlier blocking step. > I debootstrap'ed a Debian install on my G5 yesterday using a Gentoo > livecd, and I could run Sarge in a chroot so I could work on a patch > myself. Paddy de Burca gave me the confirmation that the problem was > related to the 970FX on the PowerMac7.3 platform of my new hardware. Benh said the same. > So, though you've probably got it all from benh, here is what is > working for me right now. This is a patch against the clean Debian > 2.6.8-10 kernel source package, which I then compiled with > kernel-package using the debian 2.6.8-10 kernel and 2.6.8-6 powerpc > patches using the power4-smp config (after fighting off #220389 in > kernel-package for a whole afternoon, but that is a different story). > > I'm sure you will recognize each patch (I think all three are from > benh) so I'm not describing them. Arg, i forgot one part of them, thanks for sending me this. > I have not compiled a kernel in 3+ years, and it's been 5+ years since > I worked on ppc firmware, so I'm feeling quite pumped up even if all I > did was copy patches in a chrooted sarge install ;-) And my new > Christmas present is now running *Debian* on all CPUs <grins> Hehe. Friendly, Sven Luther
