Re: Debian non-x86 kernel arches
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:06:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Is there any ppc machine we still need floppy support on? Can floppy be
> > > made a module only?
> >
> > All old world pmacs (that is those prior to the blue&white G3, but not
> > the nubus ones which we don't support) have and need the floppy disk, as
> > this is the only way to do the initial boot on those, with miboot.
>
> They're not using the PC floppy driver, though.
Indeed, they use swim3 (which is a nightmare as well if you ask me ;)
Ben.
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