From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: XServe G5 and Linux ?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:57:10 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1076360199.835.1.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040209103652.GM18913@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org>
On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 21:36, Harald Welte wrote:
> I see. It's just that the XServe G5 is sold cheaper than the XServe G4
> (at least the dealers have a lower price). That's why I somehow feel
> reluctand of buying an old machine.
Well, I don't quite recommend G4s in general any more ;)
> Also, I can positively confirm that we've had a G5 XServe at the 20C3
> (CCC Chaos Communication Congress) at the end of december. It was used
> to relay the A/V streams of the lecture halls into the congress network.
Strange... I'm quite sure they are only due to shipping about now.
> So either the CCC has received an unreleased machine, or they are
> already sold.
>
> > > 1) Does anybody have experience running linux on the current G5
> > > Xserve?
> >
> > I expect the kernel to mostly work, +/- minor adaptations that should
> > be fairly trivial hopefully, except maybe for the thermal control.
> > But then it depends what they changed of the chipset. The above is
> > assuming the chipset is just the new northbridge rev and same IO chip.
>
> mh. Unfortunately you're in .au now. This means I cannot just buy one
> of them and ship it to you for getting that initial work done.
> Shipping, Taxes, Customs Offices, ... would definitely over-complicate
> everything.
Right, on the other hands, there are chances that it just work :) And I
will probably get access to one soon anyway.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-08 18:05 XServe G5 and Linux ? Harald Welte
2004-02-09 2:37 ` David D. Kilzer
2004-02-09 4:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-09 10:36 ` Harald Welte
2004-02-09 20:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-02-09 22:16 ` Gabriel Paubert
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