From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ishizaki Kou <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/15] powerpc, celleb: Basic supports for Celleb
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:37:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1166074655.11914.313.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612140138.kBE1cb1O000668@toshiba.co.jp>
> > I'm not sure if it's a good idea to claim CHRP compatibility
> > here. Is that a workaround for a specific incompatibility? Normally,
> > I'd say you should print "machine\t\t: BEAT %s\n" or
> > "machine\t\t: Celleb %s\n", since you are definitely not running
> > a CHRP compatible firmware.
>
> This is placed only to "trick" Anaconda into installing Fedora Core Linux.
> Fedora refuses to be installed into 'unknown' system.
David, can you do some serious LART'ing of whoever is responsible for
this in anaconda ? Is there at least an option somebody can pass on the
commmand line to make it work on unknown platforms ?
It's not the first time stupid userland assumptions are causing us
problems and it won't be the last, but I'd be really annoyed to have to
let that one through...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-14 5:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-12 3:14 [PATCH 2/15] powerpc, celleb: Basic supports for Celleb Ishizaki Kou
2006-12-12 12:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-12-14 1:38 ` Ishizaki Kou
2006-12-14 5:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-12-14 7:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-12-14 7:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-14 8:24 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2006-12-12 17:26 ` Geoff Levand
2006-12-14 1:52 ` Ishizaki Kou
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