Re: debian unusable on niagara

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 17:03:57 +0200

> The released kernel should actually be working for a large majority of
> machines, so that goal is almost accomplished. IIRC, in etch, we didn't
> support a few older classes of Ultra Enterprise machines out of the box
> because brokenness with some ESP controller, and in lenny we miss the
> Ultra 45 series because of that fake PCI controller patch undoing (in turn
> related to broken X on other Ultra workstations).

And Niagara systems had a completely busted console in lenny.