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Subject: Re: any chance to use a modern linux kernel on Pegasos1 G3 ?
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:41:49 +0100
Sven Luther <sven.luther@z-innov.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 09:08:55PM +0100, Gerhard Pircher wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, since this is long dead hardware not produced anymore, i
> > > don't see how the OF could have unbroken itself by moving to
> > > powerpc.
> > > 
> > > It has been age since i looked into this, but to the best of my
> > > knowledge (and i wrote the above code or at least the earlier
> > > versions) it should be still broken.
> > Any idea then, how the workaround can be ported to arch/powerpc/ or
> > if there is a better one available?
> 
> Sorry, it has been years since i looked these parts of the linux
> kernel, so i don't really know how the arch/powerpc code handles this
> differently. Your best guess is to hunt for the code yourself, and
> find the place. I don't remember though if debugging at that time is
> easily possible though.
> 

if chrp support doesn't anymore include Pegasos1 it could be nice to
remove all that dead code. Albeit it's fun that nobody cared about for
it during the  ppc=>powerpc switch as Pegasos1 was retired in 2003
and linux-2.6.17 was released in 2006... about three years.


my regards,
Nico
- -- 
GNU/Linux on Power Architecture
CRUX PPC - http://cruxppc.org/

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