32bit PowerPC questions.

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 22:57 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > So, if you use 32bit PowerPC, drop me a mail describing what kind of platform
> > it is. ("powermac G4" for eg).  Also useful would be lspci output, and
> > the answer to "does it have ISA slots?".
> 
> I didn't think any Apple PPC machines ever had ISA as actual slots.
> Whether other PPC machines from IBM or others did I'm not sure, or
> whether PPC has the embedded ISA stuff like some of the newer Intel
> stuff for things like the i2c bus.

Yes, some pSeries had ISA busses long, long ago.  But even more recent
(post 2000 even?) pSeries machines like some of the 43p series have an
internal ISA bus that drives stuff like the floppy and sound
controllers.

Dan

> Can we just disable a lot and get it reported on the list or bugs.
> What options do the yellow dog guys enable in their 32 bit kernels?
> 
> Peter
>