From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, David Jander <david.jander@protonic.nl>
Subject: Re: Best hardware platform for native compiling...
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:47:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248180459.31121.9.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090721120007.GA23164@iram.es>
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:00 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> Well, I got one recently here in Spain. Shipping charges are fairly
> large (it's not exactly a light and compact machine). But the current
> dollar exchange rate helps ;-)
>
> Now I have not yet found the way to install Debian on it
> (it refuses to boot Debian's CDROM), but I have not had
> time to investigate either.
It uses SLOF which should be capable of decent netbooting, so it should
be possible to either netboot yaboot and have it load the kernel and
initramfs, or maybe make a zImage with both included and netboot that.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-21 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-21 9:16 Best hardware platform for native compiling David Jander
[not found] ` <20090721095251.GG32034@lisas.de>
2009-07-21 10:31 ` David Jander
2009-07-21 12:00 ` Gabriel Paubert
2009-07-21 12:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-07-22 20:18 ` Olof Johansson
2009-07-21 13:07 ` David Jander
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