From: Neil Russell <caret@c-side.com>
To: hollis@andrew.cmu.edu
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RevD iMac USB errors (was Problems compiling ppc kernels)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:57:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991026225703.G11654@lx.c-side.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <381674D5.15A925B5@andrew.cmu.edu>; from hollis@andrew.cmu.edu on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:43:17PM -0400
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:43:17PM -0400, hollis@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> > I ended up hacking a small change into the ethernet code to snarf
> > specially formatted UDP packets and shove them into the console queue.
> > This works fine, but is rather ugly.
>
> I have no idea what you're saying... you hacked your iMac to make it
> think custom-made packets coming at it are from the keyboard?
That's it exactly. I used this hacked kernel to allow me to type on the
console to get linux installed. I never intended to use the console for
real work. I just run X11 to a remote X server for that.
> > Does anyone else have any insight into this? Can anyone point me to
> > a kernel binary that works on the iMac? How about the config file for
> > the said kernel?
> >
> > I have a rev.D iMac, purchased about a month ago (just before the new
> > iMac came out).
>
> The kernels on rshaw's pages (http://www.linuxppc.org/blueg3) should
> work fine. The trick is just to comment out the USB version-checking
> code. I think he has the patch there as well.
I tried several of those kernels and they would not even boot. I also
built a kernel with the version checking commented out and those kernels
would not even find the keyboard.
--
Neil Russell <caret@c-side.com>
** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-27 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-27 3:00 Problems compiling ppc kernels bob
1999-10-27 3:43 ` RevD iMac USB errors (was Problems compiling ppc kernels) hollis
1999-10-27 5:57 ` Neil Russell [this message]
1999-10-27 6:10 ` hollis
1999-10-27 18:35 ` Dan Malek
1999-11-01 5:11 ` Dan Malek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-10-28 1:31 Dan Malek
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=19991026225703.G11654@lx.c-side.com \
--to=caret@c-side.com \
--cc=hollis@andrew.cmu.edu \
--cc=linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).