Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5

[Russell Steicke <russells@adelie.cx>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:47:57PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:23:50PM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
...
> > I installed linux-image-2.6.14-rc5-powerpc-smp from there, on a dual
> > G5 powermac, and it fails to boot.  Here's a manually transcribed copy
> > of the boot messages:
> 
> Well, give the -powerpc64 flavour a try, will you ? the powerpc and
> powerpc-smp are 32bit flavours for processors from the original PPC601 upto
> the latest G4, but _excluding_ any 64bit cpus, like the IBM power3/4/5 and the
> PPC970, aka G5 :)
> 
> And yes, the powerpc64 flavour is smp only, so it will enable both your CPUs.

Thank you, that was the one.  Sorry for the noise.  Perhaps you could
put "excluding any 64bit cpus" in the powerpc and powerpc-smp parts of
debian/control?


> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther


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