On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 07:05 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Yes, there is. We reverse engineered that a while back and somebody even
> wrote a little tool to control it, though I don't remember where that
> can be found... If necessary, we can try to dig again, the RE wasn't
> that hard.
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> Surprisingly, the Linux kernel does a very good job on this machine in
> terms of hardware support and stability : everything works perfectly.
> But the global OS fails pathetically in the two said points.
> Here are my findings so far, I hope it will help people in the same situation
> :
>
>
Hi everyone,
I've this PowerMac G5 machine I'd like to use as a server. It makes
perfect sense to install Linux on it for several reasons :
- OS X isn't maintained on this hardware anymore
- Those machine are still reasonnably fast. They sure aren't the
latest and greatest, but they still do a d
