Re: Re:No backlight control on PowerBook G4

[Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>]

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Am Son, den 09.11.2003 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt um 03:59:

> > Still cannot try this because your kernel wouldn't even survive yaboot.

> Can you give details ? It should work just fine, except if I broke
> something in the past few days when getting G5 support in, but I didn't
> have any other report of this, so...

The report on the chrp image is all I have right now because every other
image will result in a hang right after downloading the kernel via tftp.

Which of the two radeon drivers should I use anyway?

> Well, you are not supposed to use the zImage.chrp on a PowerMac,
> and definitely not from yaboot.

With the Linus kernel it's the only one that works.

> Last I tried, then just netbooting vmlinux.elf-pmac worked fine
> on all the "newworld" models I have here). For yaboot, you need
> to load a plain vmlinux binary.

Yes, but the image is too big for yaboot. I'll have to patch it first.

-- 
Servus,
       Daniel

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