Re: 2.6.14-rc5 uploaded to experimental available at http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.14-rc5
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 10:23:09AM +0800, Russell Steicke wrote:
> 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?
The description thingy needs to be tweaked some, and we will go into that
nextly.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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