Re: Minimal powerpc kernel, miboot users please test (Was Re: modularized powerpc kernel)

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

Sven Luther schrieb:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:01:25PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 05:14:21AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> >
> > > "Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net> writes:
> > Ah. I tried using a floppy ramdisk with the regular image, and it did
> > load it up. But Sven's image still didn't work. It prompts for the
> > floppy disk, but doesn't continue after I press Enter. I seem to
> > remember a similar problem cropping up with 2.2.17, when powerpc was a
> > young'n. Maybe something to do with the adb keyboard?
>
>
> Well, another problem could be that the initrd is broken, like seems to
> be the case with the initrd i built the other day from Gowsin's tree.
> And i guess you need to build the initrd with the right modules or
> something. Gaudenz can you comment on this ?
I will try:
ADB: The config I sent Sven supports ADB keyboards through the "input 
core" (and sends linux keycodes). This works on my powerbook g4. Altough 
I don't have this special prompt, because I'm not booting from a floppy. 
 Does the kernel detect your keyboard in the boot messages?
I would be very happy if the kernel just boots, loads a initrd and 
starts a process to show that it basically works. For the installer to 
work really with this new kernel we need new modules-udebs, as sven said.
Sven: what's the kernel version (uname -r) of this kernel. Is it still 
2.4.22-powerpc? If that's the case the old modules should work. (But 
probably not all modules are on the initrd, because there's no udeb for 
them :-( ).

gaudenz