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Bug#782058: Pegasos II: installer boots up to 'returning from prom_init'



On 04/10/2015 06:05 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-04-10 at 17:39 -0400, Milan Kupcevic wrote:
>> On 04/09/2015 08:21 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> It isn't reverted.  All I've done is to add radeonfb.ko to the drivers
>>> that are included *in the installer*.
>>>
>>> Neither radeon.ko nor xserver-xorg-video-radeon are included in the
>>> installer, so how could they possibly be used?  If you though those
>>> should be used in the installer, you should have told people that
>>> earlier.
>>>
>>> As it is, I think that the installer should be able to work using
>>> radeonfb.ko and xserver-xorg-video-fbdev, though I'm not sure whether
>>> radeonfb.ko will be loaded automatically.
>>>
>>> Ben.
>>>
>>
>> The module landed in sid D-I. It gets loaded automatically as it is not
>> blacklisted in D-I. I've been able to boot and run the installer on an
>> XServe G4 DP, a G4 Mac Mini, and a Pegasos II. All three machines have
>> radeon cards.
> 
> Using the graphical or text-based installer?
> 
> Ben.
> 

Using text-based installer. I do not remember when I last time saw
graphical installer on PowerPC platform. As far as I know there is no
graphical installer on this platform for very long time. It seems no one
is even trying to make it work.

Milan




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