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

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

> > 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?)
> 
> No, I don't distribute kernels anymore. The iMac G5 patches haven't been
> merged yet, but I think there are some debian packages available.
> 
> Ben.

I haven't found any debian package with a iMac patch but I've found the
following sources:

http://ozlabs.org/ppc64-patches/
http://perso.magic.fr/l_indien/linux-ImacG5/

I'll try to compile a new kernel with these as soon as I get the time to do it.

Thx

Francois

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:57, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 09:07 +0000, Francois wrote:
> > 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?)
> 
> No, I don't distribute kernels anymore. The iMac G5 patches haven't been
> merged yet, but I think there are some debian packages available.
> 
> Ben.