Bug#298581: [Netboot] Ethernet Driver on 1.8GHz G5?

[Francois <f.taiani@computer.org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:48, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 17:04 +0000, Francois wrote:
> >
> > thanks for your help. I've tried again and I've explicitly selected
> > sungen, but with no success. The strange thing is I do see an Ethernet
> > device in the pci tree (from /proc/pci):
> 
> This is one of the newer single-CPU G5s, they have the same chipset as
> the iMac G5, the kernel is missing the proper PCI ID for the ethernet
> (among others).
> 
> Try the iMac G5 kernel.

Thanks for the information. Is your page at penguinppc.org the right
place to get an iMac G5 kernel?

I've never compiled a netboot enabled kernel before. Is there an howto
available to help me start? (Or should I switch to a simpler approach,
if there is one?)

Thanx

Francois

> Ben.