Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-09-10 Thread Finn Thain
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, I wrote: > > The PMU driver is started by adb_init() which is a device_initcall, but > this happens too late. I worked around the problem successfully by > making it an arch_initcall instead. This workaround breaks CUDA so I think some kind of solution to the whole syste

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-15 Thread Stephen R. Marenka
On Fri, August 12, 2011 8:13 am, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > I think I tried them all when I reinstalled kullervo, and none of them > would > find the ISO image on the harddisk. I had to dig out an external CD-Rom > drive for the installation. Is it really possible to install with an ISO > ima

Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-13 Thread Finn Thain
On Sat, 13 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:15:39PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:37:58AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > > The basic idea is that any time the PMU thinks you aren't following the >

Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-13 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 09:15:39PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:37:58AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > > > The basic idea is that any time the PMU thinks you aren't following the > > > right communication protocol (including the timin

Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:37:58AM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > > The basic idea is that any time the PMU thinks you aren't following the > > right communication protocol (including the timing between messages) it > > will just shut off because it thinks the

Re: PMU, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:37:20PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > It is wierd, but I think that the powerbook PMU chip will respond to > > certain CPU exceptions this way. I've seen powerbooks respond to > > initramfs like this before but I don't think I e

Re: serial console, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:37:20PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > It is wierd, but I think that the powerbook PMU chip will respond to > certain CPU exceptions this way. I've seen powerbooks respond to initramfs > like this before but I don't think I ever found out why. The basic idea is that any ti

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > > The hd-media flavour goes through "detecting hardware to find hard > > drives" and "searching drives for an installer ISO image" stages and > > seems to detect the partitions fine (on the quadra that is -- it > > doesn't use the mac_scsi dr

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 10:55:52PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which would > > allow you to install by downloading s

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which would > allow you to install by downloading stuff from the internet, as in the > netboot option, without requiring the

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Stephen R. Marenka wrote: > On Thu, August 11, 2011 8:51 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which > > would allow you to install by downloading stuff fr

serial console, was Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-12 Thread Finn Thain
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > > > First thing I found was that the mac kernel has the serial console > > disabled. Is that normal for di kernels? > > d-i kernels are no different from 'regular' kernels (they're re

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-11 Thread Stephen R. Marenka
On Thu, August 11, 2011 8:51 am, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > I was under the impression that we had at least one flavour which would > allow you to install by downloading stuff from the internet, as in the > netboot option, without requir

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Finn Thain wrote: > > Hi Wouter, > > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I spent some time fighting with d-i, and have eventually come up with a > > successful build: > > Thanks for doing this. You're welcome. Thanks for tes

Re: d-i built (but not tested)

2011-08-10 Thread Finn Thain
Hi Wouter, On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi, > > I spent some time fighting with d-i, and have eventually come up with a > successful build: Thanks for doing this. > > http://people.debian.org/~wouter/di-m68k/ > > It's not been tested, however; people willing to do that wou