On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 07:25:05PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Troy Benjegerdes writes: > > > The legacy-peecee 16550 uart serial driver probes IO addresses blindly. > > You need the driver built in for IBM pSeries machines, and the G5 gets > > real unhappy when the driver probes nonexistant IO addresses. > > That much I know. This is the reason for having separate power4 and > g5 flavours.
I for one would support a ppc patch that lets the same kernel work on G5 and pSeries. It would make testing a whole lot easier. Especially since IBM's pSeries BladeCenter machine has the same bridge chip and PCI-X bridge as a mac G5. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Troy Benjegerdes 'da hozer' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Somone asked my why I work on this free (http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/) software stuff and not get a real job. Charles Shultz had the best answer: "Why do musicians compose symphonies and poets write poems? They do it because life wouldn't have any meaning for them if they didn't. That's why I draw cartoons. It's my life." -- Charles Shultz
