Re: Debian non-x86 kernel arches
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:25:05PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Troy Benjegerdes writes:
>
> > The legacy-peecee 16550 uart serial driver probes IO addresses blindly.
> > You need the driver built in for IBM pSeries machines, and the G5 gets
> > real unhappy when the driver probes nonexistant IO addresses.
>
> That much I know. This is the reason for having separate power4 and
> g5 flavours.
I for one would support a ppc patch that lets the same kernel work on G5
and pSeries. It would make testing a whole lot easier. Especially since
IBM's pSeries BladeCenter machine has the same bridge chip and PCI-X
bridge as a mac G5.
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