From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268697AbUHLTxF (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:53:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268696AbUHLTxE (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:53:04 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:42460 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268697AbUHLTwk (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:52:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:51:59 -0500 From: Jake Moilanen To: Joshua Kwan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OT: Distribution for Power4 Machines Message-Id: <20040812145159.3614473f@localhost> In-Reply-To: References: <20040811055622.52917.qmail@web13911.mail.yahoo.com> <15070000.1092237689@[10.10.2.4]> <1092238482.6033.4.camel@nighthawk> Organization: LTC X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Thanks to Sven Luther our new installer fully supports power4 (as far as > I know, I don't personally own one.) > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/daily/powerpc/current/ > > should contain a CD image that can boot your machine. Unless they fixed this very recently, the kernels they build for power4 are the 32-bit ones. Which work fine if you are booting power4 natively (ie without it running in partition). As soon as a power4 box is running in a partition the kernel breaks because the 32-bit one does not have the hypervisor calls. I know Tom Gall has been working on Gentoo for ppc64. http://dev.gentoo.org/~tgall/ Thanks, Jake