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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

  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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