From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/g5: Enable all windfarms by default
Date: Thu, 7 May 2026 22:50:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <342c49e7-fdcc-43c1-a11e-b52d626730ef@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD++jLmBn4moNJKp8TLmMvdmSVaT4qnY10OuBMEQmaZnO8D1JQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 7/5/2026 03:30, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> I don't have any G5s anymore, but the ones I did have used the other
>> windfarm drivers so I never hit this.
>>
>> You might be the last person on earth booting Linux on those :)
>
> Not really, Sean (Action Retro) did this thing and follow-ups on
> YouTube:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Ugfqj1ank
>
> Including installing a contemporary graphics card:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPDd1Y0flSg
Nice.
But the driver you enabled, PM72, is for PowerMac7,2, which is 2-3 years
older, and does not have PCI-E.
So if you have one of those it's even more special.
> This likely means he inspired a whole bunch of geeks to
> go and do the same. :)
Hopefully one of them volunteers to be powermac maintainer ;)
cheers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-07 12:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-05 18:47 [PATCH v3] powerpc/g5: Enable all windfarms by default Linus Walleij
2026-05-06 11:41 ` Michael Ellerman
2026-05-06 17:30 ` Linus Walleij
2026-05-07 2:29 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2026-05-07 12:50 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2026-05-07 2:28 ` Madhavan Srinivasan
2026-05-07 8:52 ` Segher Boessenkool
2026-05-07 8:58 ` Linus Walleij
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