Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Hrm... Let me remember now... ahhh yes, the very first iMacs (the ones > > without an AGP slot) did indeed use a paddington chipset iirc. That is > > a BMAC chip. Sorry for the confusion. > > Sungem and Tulip were used in which iMac variants, then? Well, the very first "Core99" ones (with

Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 18:41, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > Depending on what iMac model it is, you may have either a sungem chip > > > or a tulip chip. Make sure both drivers are built

Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 18:41, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > 1) Which kernel absolutely supports iMac hardware > > > > Depending on what iMac model it is, you may have either a sungem chip > > or a tulip chip. Make sure both drivers are built

Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-05 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > 1) Which kernel absolutely supports iMac hardware > > Depending on what iMac model it is, you may have either a sungem chip > or a tulip chip. Make sure both drivers are built into the kernel. Here, I enabled CONFIG_BMAC and didn't need anyt

Re: Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > 1) Which kernel absolutely supports iMac hardware and CRT (ie, I can > see the entire display on my monitor) while also providing networking? Depending on what iMac model it is, you may have either a sungem chip or a tulip chip. Make sure both drivers are built into the kernel. > 2) What p

Kernel Newbie Needs Help

2004-03-04 Thread Ed Sutherland
I've been trying to find the right Debian kernel for the iMac and have some questions. Debian PPC (Woody) installs with 2.4.18 -- great networking, but it doesn't support the iMac's CRT: the left-most character of each line is hidden by the Mac's CRT black border. I installed kernel-image-2.6.