Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 04:40:16PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Rick Thomas wrote:
> > I've submitted several bug reports on this topic. The developers
> > know about it, and may fix it sometime. It's not as easy to fix as
> > it sounds, because the mesh controller is not on the regular PCI
> > bus, so the normal hardware discovery programs never get a chance
> > to see it.
>
> As far as I can tell, it's fixed in an as-yet unreleased version of
> hw-detect:
>
> - mac-io bus detection improvements:
> + Detect mesh SCSI controller (closes: #269655, #271419).
> + Detect mace Ethernet controller.
> + Detect mac53c94 SCSI controller.
> + Detect therm_adt746x and therm_windtunnel fan controllers, although
> only post-reboot for now since those modules aren't in
> linux-kernel-di-powerpc-*.
> + Cope with /proc/device-tree/aliases/mac-io pointing to a symlink.
Note that there's a patch on lkml that adds device tables ala
pci,usb,etc.. for macio. But that's probably useless for you as you'd
want to support 2.4 aswell?
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