On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:56:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 00:15 +1200, Joel Van Velden wrote: > > Hi everyone. > > > > I have an iMac G5 (first revision) and am trying to install debian on > > it, but first i am wondering what is supported: > > I got one recently and started doing some serious work on the missing > pieces. However, I've been a bit delayed by other more important work > things, but it's still high on my todolist. i have just tried a daily sarge businesscard on a powerbook g5. the installer works just fine using the install-power4 option. I could also resize the hpfs partition using parted (from the command line, and after having disabled the journaling in osx). 2.6.8-power4-smp and 2.6.11-power4-smp both work fine too. i am now trying to compile 2.6.12-rc5 using a config derived from debian's 2.6.11-power4, adding support for smu, suspend, and cpufreq support, but i get a few errors, and a few questions too. first of all, how do i compile a ppc64, and what do i need to boot/use it? i have PPC_PMA64 and PPC64BRIDGE set, but include/asm points to include/asm-ppc64. > > o Analogue sound output? > > Not yet. Ben, did you not say the -rc4 will have "analog work on some desktop G5" in a previous thread? > > o Dynamic CPU clock scaling? > > Will be there soon too. Probably along with Fan control. according to the warning in arch/ppc/platforms/pmac_cpufreq.c, using cpufreq on smp kernel is not a good idea. what is the status of this? (btw, the ___save_processor_state call should be replaced by save_processor_state) and what about altivec support? is there no such thing anymore? > > What is the best/easiest way to actually install debian on an imac? > > Should i be using the newfangled debian-installer release candidates, or > > something else? > > I suppose you want somebody to build you a 64 bits kernel with proper > SMU support and boot that with the debian install initrd... When CONFIG_PMAC_SMU is set, i get drivers/macintosh/smu.c:45:21: asm/smu.h: No such file or directory drivers/macintosh/smu.c:47:26: asm/abs_addr.h: No such file or directory drivers/macintosh/smu.c: In function `smu_cmd_done': drivers/macintosh/smu.c:121: warning: implicit declaration of function `udelay' drivers/macintosh/smu.c: In function `smu_do_cmd': drivers/macintosh/smu.c:140: warning: implicit declaration of function `flush_inval_dcache_range' drivers/macintosh/smu.c: In function `smu_init': drivers/macintosh/smu.c:310: error: `smu_cmdbuf_abs' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/macintosh/smu.c:310: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drivers/macintosh/smu.c:310: error: for each function it appears in.) drivers/macintosh/smu.c:326: warning: implicit declaration of function `abs_to_virt' ater deactivating CONFIG_PMAC_SMU, i get: drivers/built-in.o(.pmac.text+0x37fc): In function `pmac_suspend_devices': : undefined reference to `pmac_tweak_clock_spreading' drivers/built-in.o(.pmac.text+0x39b8): In function `pmac_wakeup_devices': : undefined reference to `pmac_tweak_clock_spreading' which i still get after deactiving SWSUSPEND and USB SUSPEND thanks, paul
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