Re: Bug#382129: Beta3 won't boot on OldWorld PowerPC Mac
Thanks for explaining this, Sven. I was unaware of the nature of changes that occurred prior to the 2.6.15 kernel, and this gives me a general idea. This also seems to answer the original question posed by Rich Thomas -- the question which began this thread.
Rick, Let me know if there's anything I can test/do to help you get what you need. I know you're wanting 2.6.16, and I haven't had success there yet -- but perhaps I can help in some other way. I currently have a partition available to test on my PowerBook G3. (You'll recall, it's a "Wallstreet" PowerBook.)
Harold
On 8/21/06, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
Previous to 2.6.15/2.6.14, there where two kernel architectures, ppc and
ppc64, with lot of duplication. In 2.6.15 the migration started for ppc64 to
have a single architecture for both, namely powerpc, and this was completed
for powerpc/chrp in 2.6.16, while prep and apus still stayed in ARCH=ppc, and
nubus is not ported to 2.6 yet.
If you get a kernel source, the thing is that the code changed between what
was in arch/ppc and now is in arch/powerpc.
This is a pretty major migration, and code changed, so for oldworld machines,
problems with 2.6.16 are pretty much linked to this migration.
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