Bug#264492: NewWorld (G4) PowerPC d-i hardware detect does not see firewire disk

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 08:02:05PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
> Sven Luther wrote:
> >   - i suspect that the pci id is already used to load the actual firewire
> >     driver, and since discover 1 cannot load more than one module for a given
> >     pci id, i suspect you will encounter problem this way. I suppose ohci1394
> >     will be loaded for the pci id. That said, there is some other place where
> >     other modules are loaded, since d-i clearly loads the firewire network
> >     modules.
> 
> Once it finds ohci1394 loaded, hw-detect will unconditionally try to
> load sbp2 and eth1394 modules, as there's no other way. I think that
> ohci1394 is the right thing to have in the discover db for firewire
> controllers, after all you can't tell what's on the controller and as
> you say discover can only load one module.
> 
> As far as I can see, discover1-data has no pci ids mapped to sbp2 or
> eth1394, they all map to ohci1394.

Ok, so we do it by hand. I wonder though what newworld pmac box he has that
doesn't work, apple usually reused the same componnent in various boxes, and
thus it should usually work.

Friendly,

Sven Luther