From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>
To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0)
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:40:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47516449.2000600@bzed.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196454535.3432.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
David Miller wrote:
> From: Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>
> Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:43:30 +0100
>
>>>> - Systems that boot off qlogic attached disks are not supported, because
>>>> there is no working firmware loader in anaconda, and the qlogic driver
>>>> needs firmware.
>>> That's very unfortunate, how are qlogic device handled on other
>>> platforms?
>> In Debian you just install the firmware package, udevl will handle it
>> then. If you have to boot from it, you need to rebuild your initrd after
>> installing the firmware package.
>> The installer doesn't support non-free modules yet unfortunately, but
>> with some not too complicated tricks you can install Debian without
>> problems.
>
> I said "other platforms" as in x86, x86_64, powerpc.
Just the same. You can even install the firmware on hardware where you
wouldn't be able use a qlogic card. It's only loaded if an appropriate
device is detected.
--
Bernd Zeimetz
<bernd@bzed.de> <http://bzed.de/>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-01 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 20:28 [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0) Tom "spot" Callaway
2007-12-01 12:12 ` David Miller
2007-12-01 12:43 ` Bernd Zeimetz
2007-12-01 12:57 ` David Miller
2007-12-01 13:29 ` Tom "spot" Callaway
2007-12-01 13:40 ` Bernd Zeimetz [this message]
2007-12-02 15:50 ` Adam Kropelin
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