From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:42:19 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: LinuxPPC and Pismo Powerbook Message-ID: <20000329214218.D4054@suse.de> Reply-To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org References: <20000329155834.A30559@suse.de> <20000329185016.026926@mailhost.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20000329185016.026926@mailhost.mipsys.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, Mar 29, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2000, Olaf Hering wrote: > > >I don't see the problem. What we really need is an app that creates the > >os-chooser file, what we need is the partition number and the path to a > >bootable SCSI device. I could do that from the Linux side via a bootable > >CD, but it would be nice to do it with a Mac application. > > The good news is that I have the algorithm for writing to NVRAM on new > machines. That means that I'll be able to make a version of nvsetenv (or > nvtool) that works on all supported macs, probably this week-end. > > There's still the problem of figuring out the correct OF path however. > Note that in my latest trees (and in bk 2.3.x), I've changed ide-pmac.c > to set it's own interface type so that /proc returns "mac-io" instead of > generic IDE. This should help differenciate the mac-io built-in IDE and > the CMD646 on B&W G3. I did a small update to the show_of_path.sh script, it display now everything correct. It assumes that ultra0 is always the first hd, ultra1 is the second. hdb can also be a cdrom drive, we have it in on of our iMacs. The OF to SCSI devices is "guessed" from bootpath. I think there is no real need for the exact path to an IDE controller. It is available from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/show_of_path.sh Everybody is invited to send us the output of ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/suse_hw_info.sh It is a little tar.gz file, 30kb. New kernels with the status from linux-pmac-benh monday morning will arrive tomorrow, we do some internal tests. It includes also pcmcia support. They will support pmac, chrp and prep machines. A newer quik.rpm for RS/6000 booting is available from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/a1/quik-2.0-7.ppc.rpm It scans now every partition on sda for quik.conf, take the kernel from that partition and mount it as the root device if there is no root= argument. Gruss Olaf -- $ man 1 current_release BUGS Users never read manuals... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/