Re: Booting "Etch" on older hardware
Chris Newport wrote:
> My patches made it into the kernel somewhere around 2.4.29, there were
> serial issues which may have been helped by later sparc32 work.
> Pluto can be made to work with 2.2.x , you will need to read my writeup
> at http://www.splack.org/fibrechan to fix the pcode firmware.
> You might then be able to track down the changes needed to get to 2.4,
> but it will not be easy.
>
> Others have since warned me not to boot from the FC interfaces, the OBP
> will overwrite the pcode with an old version, wrecking the above update.
> This might also happen if you probe-fc-all, so be warned that you may
> need to reapply the pcode fix.
Thanks Chris, I've got and applied your FC fixes already :-) Noted the potential
problem areas. If I can I'll see if I can find what's changed in the drivers to
get Pluto working again, but this really isn't what I should be doing.
Not sure I'll bother with 2.6, I've got other machines here that are unlikely to
make the transition due to binary-only SMBUS drivers. However I might see if I
can work out what's going wrong with the CPU-detection stuff right at the start.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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