kernel 2.6 difference between g4 and powerpc kernel
I have a dual CPU grey-green tower Mac which i was under the impression was a
G4. I'm having issues running the G4 flavor of kernel 2.6
cat /proc/cpuinfo returns
processor : 0
cpu : 7400, altivec supported
temperature : 31-33 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 450MHz
revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209)
bogomips : 894.97
processor : 1
cpu : 7400, altivec supported
temperature : 39-41 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 450MHz
revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209)
bogomips : 894.97
total bogomips : 1789.95
machine : PowerMac3,3
motherboard : PowerMac3,3 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 65 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics)
pmac flags : 00000004
L2 cache : 1024K unified
memory : 256MB
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Anyways i tried running kernel-image-g4-smp and it froze right after loading
the initrd. I then tried kernel-image-powerpc-smp which works great. I'm
wondering what is the difference between the two kernel-images and why does
the G4 image not work for me? Also what are the advantages gained by running
a g3 or g4 kernel as opposed to vanilla powerpc?
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