> I just tried it on my POWER3 box. You dont happen to have > CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY enabled do you? That option enables some minor > optimisations that actually prevent booting on older boxes.
It boots on a 1.6GHz JS20 blade. Unfortunately I couldnt bring up a network, we need the tg3 driver as a module for that. As for the other pseries boxes... POWER3 boxes mostly have pcnet32 network cards. Some old pseries had 3com networks, CONFIG_VORTEX should cover them. Others have the acenic card. For POWER4 boxes we want the e100 (already in I see) and for POWER5 boxes we want the e1000 (also in). For virtual IO POWER5 boxes we want the virtual ethernet driver (CONFIG_IBMVETH). On the IO side we want the sym2 SCSI, the IPR scsi, the IBMVSCSI. FYI arch/ppc64/configs/pSeries_defconfig is a good place to look for what a pseries box might have. I just booted it on a POWER5 (520). But its a partition with virtual network and virtual scsi, so requires those modules before I can complete that installation. Anton
