From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernd Zeimetz Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:40:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Aurora SPARC Linux Build 2.99 (Beta 2 for 3.0) Message-Id: <47516449.2000600@bzed.de> List-Id: References: <1196454535.3432.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1196454535.3432.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org David Miller wrote: > From: Bernd Zeimetz > 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