Re: Sarge on OldWorld Mac - No root device

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

I'd be perfectly happy (personally) if it only worked in 2.6.  
However, I believe that Sarge d-i has, as one of it's goals, to 
support both 2.4 and 2.6.  Does anybody else on the list know for 
sure?

Rick


On Tuesday, September 28, 2004, at 06:21 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> 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?


I'd be perfectly happy (personally) if it only worked in 2.6.  
However, I believe that Sarge d-i has, as one of it's goals, to 
support both 2.4 and 2.6 on PowerPC architecture.  Does anybody 
else on the list know for sure?

Rick