From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com (e38.co.us.ibm.com [32.97.110.159]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "e38.co.us.ibm.com", Issuer "Equifax" (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7602DDDD0C for ; Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:44:22 +1100 (EST) Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e38.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id mA50hUXC016489 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:43:30 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (d03av04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.170]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id mA50iG2m119370 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:44:17 -0700 Received: from d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av04.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id mA50iFPV002906 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:44:16 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:44:11 -0500 From: Josh Boyer To: Mitch Crane Subject: Re: booting 32 bit kernel on G5 Message-ID: <20081104194411.0ad8ceeb@zod.rchland.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <385918C0-E800-4DA0-92F3-2755BCEB7434@fusionio.com> References: <385918C0-E800-4DA0-92F3-2755BCEB7434@fusionio.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on Embedded PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:32:10 -0700 Mitch Crane wrote: > Hi all, > > First off, I apologize for not searching the archives, I'm afraid the > link is broken: http://lists.linuxppc.org/rules.html > > My AMCC Katmai is on order. In the meantime I'd like to try building > and running my driver on my Mac G5 PPC64, running in 32 bit mode. I > have a recent YDL distro installed, and can rebuild the kernel, > switching off 64 bit in the kernel build config. However, when I try > to boot the 32 bit kernel it hangs in the open firmware "release keys > to continue" screen. Can someone please lend a hand here? Has anyone > accomplished a 32 bit boot on a Mac G5 with a 2.6 kernel? That support was taken out quite a while ago. It's no longer possible from what I remember. josh