Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:27:57PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 06:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >>As far as I can tell, it's fixed in an as-yet unreleased version of
> >>hw-detect:
> >>
> >> - mac-io bus detection improvements:
> >> + Detect mesh SCSI controller (closes: #269655, #271419).
> >> + Detect mace Ethernet controller.
> >> + Detect mac53c94 SCSI controller.
> >> + Detect therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel fan
> >>controllers, although
> >> only post-reboot for now since those modules aren't in
> >> linux-kernel-di-powerpc-*.
> >> + Cope with /proc/device-tree/aliases/mac-io pointing to a
> >>symlink.
> >
> >Note that there's a patch on lkml that adds device tables ala
> >pci,usb,etc.. for macio. But that's probably useless for you as you'd
> >want to support 2.4 aswell?
>
> I'd be perfectly happy (personally) if it only worked in 2.6.
> However, I believe that Sarge d-i has, as one of it's goals, to
> support both 2.4 and 2.6 on PowerPC architecture. Does anybody
> else on the list know for sure?
Yes. In any case, the hw-detect patch has already been uploaded so the
discussion is moot, although mac-io device tables would certainly be
very nice to have post-sarge so that we don't have to kludge
/etc/modules and can rely on hotplug instead.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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