On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 02:52:24PM +0200, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
Sven Luther wrote:
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Last times the g-i was tested on PPC, it turned tout that
Known good : radeonfb, vesafb (or whatever x86 uses).
vesafb is not built on powerpc, and the laptop we had in extremadura used a
radeon chipset, altough of the R300 variety.
isn't "fbonly" the PPC equivalent to "vesafb" on i386?
That is offb, and no, it is totally different :) Most drivers are builtin the
kernel though, so therei s really no need for offb, except for real old
hardware.
This is the most serious bug affecting g-i on PPC, and i wasn't able to
fix it because i have no PPC HW.
Yes, i will. Need to build a netboot g-i image and will test that on my
pegasos with the radon 9250 board.
If you experience crashes, you may want to run the d-i in a chroot cage,
like explained in this [1] wiki page.
Ok, thanks.
Sven, do you think can give the PPC g-i a try? i will help you on
debugging it as much as i can.
Indeed, that is my intentions, a first test today, and more over the
week-end.
thanks! Having the g-i avalable for PPCs too would be really nice!
Indeed. As said, i would have done this earlier, but well, the context was not
favourable to this kind of things, let's say.