From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org (pentafluge.infradead.org [213.146.154.40]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD28867BF8 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:37:30 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/15] powerpc, celleb: Basic supports for Celleb From: David Woodhouse To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt In-Reply-To: <1166074655.11914.313.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200612140138.kBE1cb1O000668@toshiba.co.jp> <1166074655.11914.313.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:37:17 +0000 Message-Id: <1166081837.5253.822.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, arnd@arndb.de List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 16:37 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > 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 ? Define 'work'. I believe it ends up doing _different_ things according to the machine type -- in particular the selection of the bootloader setup. You want to treat all unknown machines as CHRP? Paul, can we do that? When does the Fedora team get a Celleb machine for compatibility testing, btw? -- dwmw2