On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 04:14:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > Well, I started poking around in d-i (I don't know it at all). It > seems that the base-installer in testing is version 1.13 and it does > *NOT* recognize 970FX as a power4 family processor. > > I looked in subversion and I see the following comment in > debian-installer/packages/base-installer/debian/changelog > > base-installer (1.15) experimental; urgency=low > > NOTE: not for sarge, needs rootskel 1.11 > * Colin Watson > - Recognise POWER4+ and PPC970FX cpuinfo entries as power4 systems. > > and I can see in svn diffs that power4+ and 970fx were added to > kernel/powerpc.sh in its latest revision. > > Does this ("not for sarge, needs rootskel 1.11") mean the 970FX will > not be supported by sarge?
No, it doesn't mean that. There's a matching change on the sarge branch (base-installer 1.13.1), which I'll release now. > Also, the test case kernel/tests/powerpc/g5.cpuinfo is for a > PowerMac7,2 (970). There is not test for a 970FX PowerMac7,3. Please provide /proc/cpuinfo from such a machine and I'll happily add a test. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]