PPC and RS/6000 (PReP)

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 19:55 -0300, Ricardo Ariel Gorosito wrote:
> will RS/6000 be supported in FC4? 

Maybe. There isn't a lot which prevents the kernel from working --
CONFIG_ISA being a large part of it. I'm not sure how far people got
with that kernel.

> CD1/images/README say "Images for installing on an iSeries machine can 
> be found in the ppc/iSeries directory." but ppc/iSeries does not exist

The image directories are somewhat misnamed. We have only two images --
the 64-bit kernel which runs on pSeries and Mac G5, and the 32-bit
kernel which runs on 32-bit Macs (and might work on 32-bit PReP/CHRP
too).

We have 3 CDs -- the 64-bit kernel on a CHRP-bootable CD for pSeries,
the 64-bit kernel on a Mac-bootable CD for G5s, and the 32-bit kernel on
a Mac-bootable CD. These can theoretically be condensed into a single
CD. For now, you'll have to netboot the RS/6000 from the images, if it's
going to work.

Since you're running Linux already, the best thing you can do is test
the current rawhide kernel. If it doesn't work, it's probably due to
configuration options which are missing; make it work and tell me which
they were.

If you join #fedora-ppc on irc.freenode.net, we can discuss it in more
detail there.

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dwmw2