From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.crashing.org (gate.crashing.org [63.228.1.57]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1946E67BED for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:39:11 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/15] powerpc, celleb: Basic supports for Celleb From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Ishizaki Kou In-Reply-To: <200612140138.kBE1cb1O000668@toshiba.co.jp> References: <200612140138.kBE1cb1O000668@toshiba.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:37:35 +1100 Message-Id: <1166074655.11914.313.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, David Woodhouse , arnd@arndb.de List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , > > 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.